The following picture is an art activity that we did for our Art Methods Class. For this particular class period, our theme was Vincent van Gogh and his painting “Starry Night.” Our requirement was to create a painting similar to Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” Using finger painting with the three primary colors, black, and white, we painted on white paper. Although, we could choose our own scene we still had to imitate some of van Gogh’s swirls and strokes, textures, shades, and tints, as well creating space by having a foreground, middle ground, and background. For this picture, I tried to make it similar to van Gogh’s painting. However, I could not and did not want to make it exactly similar. I did try to keep the theme and motion of “Starry Night” by creating swirls and similar settings, yet my painting is very different. I really enjoyed experimenting, making swirls, and mixing colors to create different shades and tints in the center swirl and the distant skyline.
An extension activity with this finger painting would be science where students learn about the seasons. The students would use the finger painting to create a scene of their choice for each of the four seasons. For this activity, students would have the opportunity to use the primary colors, black, and white and they would learn how to mix colors to create different shades, tints, and a variety of colors to make their painting colorful depending on the season they are painting. This activity would take more than one class period to complete.
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