Vincent Van Gogh Inspired Landscape Project

 Description:

 The activity started with talking about Van Gogh's Starry Night Painting and what elements of principal design we saw in it. Then we dived a little more into his life and how it can sometimes take a long time to become famous for works of art. Then we made our own project, similar to his landscape. We laid down tissue paper and stuck it down with glue. Then we cut out a landscape and glued it over the top. I decided to do a mountain landscape. We use oil pastels to mimic the swirls found in Starry Night. 

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Extension Activity:

For an extension activity, I could tie it in to social studies, and have the students do a landscape that can be found in South Dakota (or whatever state I am in), and we can talk about Van Gogh's history along with state history. 

Dot Day Activity

 Description: This is a project based on the book by Peter H. Reynolds called The Dot. It is a story based on a kid who said he wasn't creative, and yet made artwork out of different types of dots. For our project, we used coffee filters, and a variety of other mediums of art (markers, crayons,  water colors, oil pastels, ect) and created our own dot. I used a white crayon to create a secret message that appeared after I covered it with purple paint. 

Extension Activity: With the Dot activity, you could include a social studies element with it. Every student has a coffee filter, and they use a white crayon to write their signature on it. Then you will collect all of them and mix them up. The history element goes back to John Hancock and signing the Declaration of Independence. Talking about the importance of a signature and what it really means to put your name on this document. Then the students will have to design the dot to reveal whose name is on the paper, and then give it back to the right owner. 

Elements and Principal Pictures

 Unity - It is a collage of library bar codes. 

Emphasis - The pine cone and the bird stand out against the white background. 

Rythem/movement - using curved lines and a variety of colors to demonstrate something moving. 

Color - What is seen when the light hits it and reflets in our eye.

Texture: You can see the movment and demension in the fur. 

Extension Activity: For an extension activity, I will do a mystery design challenge. Each student student is going to a principal of design, and then they are going to have to use that design to create a project and then present it and try to have their classmate guess the principal they had.