Monday, October 10, 2011

Van Gogh Inpired Cityscape Collage

The following tissue collage is also a Vincent van Gogh “Starry Night” theme. For this art project, we were required to create a city/farmscape that would resemble van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” We used tissue paper to create swirls similar to van Gogh’s painting style. To begin, I took a variety of different colors tissue paper and cut out pieces with varying designs (swirls, circles, lines, etc.). Then I took a piece of blue construction paper and pasted the tissue paper cuttings onto the construction paper with an acrylic paste. Afterwards, I covered all the exposed areas of the construction paper with the acrylic paste to seal it off. When the tissue collage was dry, I pasted a farm scene cut out of black construction paper onto my collage to create a farmscape. Then I used various colors of oil pastels to create an outline of the farm scene, to emphasize, and to create movement in the tissue swirls. 
An extension activity with this tissue collage would be for a third grade social studies class. When studying maps the students could use tissue paper to cut out shapes of buildings, roads, lake, trees, etc. as their map symbols. Then they would paste the tissue paper cuttings onto another piece of construction paper to create a map of a town. They could also use the oil pastels or permanent markers to create fine details on the map. When their project is finished, the students would present it to the class and explain the reason and makeup of their town map.  

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