Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh Art Smart: Grade 1 Day 1

Vincent Van Gogh 1853 – 1890 Dutch painter (portraits, self-portraits, landscapes & still lifes)  Van Gogh drew as a child but did not paint until his late twenties He made over 2, 100 paintings from approximately age 27-37 (when he died). He was usually sad and upset. He ended up living in a special hospital for a while to get better. He expressed his feelings through his painting. Here is one of his self-portraits:

But first (Van Gogh says), a little vocab and review…

Art Vocabulary Line Primary Colors Pattern Secondary Colors Texture Movement Mood Primary Colors Secondary Colors Warm Colors Cool Colors

Primary and Secondary Colors No colors can be mixed to make the three primary colors -Red, Blue and Yellow. If you mix primary colors, you will get a secondary color -Orange, Green or Purple.

Warm and Cool Colors Artists choose colors for a reason. Colors can remind us of things and feelings.

Warm Colors A group of colors associated with heat and light. They appear to come forward. Do you know any warm colors?

Warm colors have the look of fire and sunshine.

Cool Colors A group of colors associated with calm and cold. Appear to look further away from you in an artwork. Do you know any cool colors?

When you think of cool waters or a night sky, you see cool colors. Think Cold!

What is a line? How do artists use lines?

Line Artists use lines and colors to show emotion. Emotion is a feeling. You can use repetition of lines to create texture or pattern.

What can you do with a line? You can create PATTERNS.

If you repeat a design, you create a pattern. Repetition is the key!

Texture Texture is an art element. It can be ACTUAL or VISUAL. Actual texture defines how something feels when touched. Visual texture shows how something appears.

Texture

Mood Mood is an art element. Artists set the mood for their art work using color, lines, and texture.

Music is an art form just like painting. Mood Sample Music 1: Funny Chicken Dance How did this make you feel? Sample Music 2: Yoga, Relaxation Music How do you feel now? Music is an art form just like painting. Paintings displays certain mood to the viewer, just like music. When you look at an art piece, it can make you feel happy, excited, sad, lonely or any other emotion you can attach to it.

Movement is an element of art Movement helps to draw viewer’s eye through the art work.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890)

Video of Starry Night in Motion (teacher login / access to YouTube needed) https://vimeo.com/36466564 OR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCHFAsXYHGA

Starry Night

Starry Night Lesson Plan (Day 1) Materials for Day 1: White construction paper Pencils Directions for Day 1: Show PowerPoint - (Examples of Van Gogh's paintings, discussion of his painting style and technique, vocabulary, etc. Pass out Scratch paper and pencils. Show / have kids pantomime the gross motor movement of drawing a big, long curving wind stroke. Repeat a few. Demonstrate what it looks like on white board. Have students draw “wind” lines on their scratch paper. Pantomime small brush strokes / hatch marks in the air. Have kids do it too. Talk about drawing dotted lines and show on the white board. -----Have kids practice dotted lines on their scratch paper. Pantomime drawing the circular motions (gross motor – with whole arm) that will be used to create the moon and stars. Have kids imitate. Illustrate on white board and have kids practice on scratch. Erasers Oil pastels -shades of purple, blue, green, yellow and orange. Provide white and black at the end only if needed.

Day 1 Lesson Plan Continued… Instruct students to turn their scratch paper over and sketch their wind first (top 3rd of paper). Next talk about where moon and stars will go. (Not overlapping the wind. How many? Placement? Room needed to draw concentric circles around them. Have them draw them on their scratch paper. Pass out white construction paper and have them LIGHTLY sketch their final composition (wind, moon, stars – in that order) on their new paper. Students will use these guide lines to create color strokes mimicking Van Gogh's painting style to make their Starry Night sky. Remind them the big “swoosh” motion of drawing the wind. Pass out oil pastels and instruct them to draw with color, the wind only. . Show them how to layer dark and light shades of color. Talk about concentric circles of color using dotted lines around the moon and stars. Talk about going from warmer to cooler in color. . Show them how to layer dark and light shades of color. Illustrate on the white board or your paper. Have them have them draw their moon and stars. Continue layering color and curved strokes to completely cover the white construction paper and achieve desired shades and movement

Some Pictures of the Process

Day 2

But first (Van Gogh says), a little vocab and review…

Art Vocabulary Line Pattern Movement Texture Mood Skyline Primary Colors Secondary Colors Warm Colors Cool Colors Positive Space Negative Space Silhouette

Silhouette A silhouette is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, its edges matching the outline of the subject From its original graphic meaning, the term "silhouette" has been extended to describe the sight or representation of a person, object or scene that is backlit, and appears dark against a lighter background. Often created by cutting a positive shape from black paper

Positive & Negative Space Positive Space is the areas in a work of art that are the subjects, or areas of interest. Negative space is the space that surrounds the subjects, or areas of interest. Here are some Silhouettes showing positive and negative space…

Positive & Negative Space in Color

Define the Positive & Negative Space in Van Gogh’s Paintings:

Define the Positive & Negative Space in Van Gogh’s Paintings:

An outline of land and buildings defined against the sky. What is a Skyline? An outline of land and buildings defined against the sky.

City Skylines (in Silhouette) New York Paris

City Skylines (in Silhouette) Chicago Seattle

Country Skylines

Suburban Skylines

Starry Night Lesson Plan (Day 2) Materials for Day 2: Scratch Paper Black Construction Paper (cut) (same width as project but only ½ -1/3 as tall) Pencils Directions for Day 2: Show PowerPoint for Day 2 - (Vocab review, positive & negative space, silhouette, skyline) Pass out scratch paper and regular pencils. Students will practice drawing skylines using ONLY the bottom 3rd of the scratch paper When done practicing, pass out black pre-cut construction paper . Students will draw their skylines using ONLY the bottom 3rd of the paper. Students and volunteers will cut out their skyline. Use Glue Sticks to glue on the skyline aligning the side and bottom edges of the two papers. If time remains, use colored pencils to color (with short, hatch mark strokes) their skyline. Careful not to smudge the oil pastels.) Erasers Scissors Glue Sticks Colored Pencils