Van Gogh Spooky Night

This was a new project for me this year. I got the idea from the fabulous Cassie Stephens!

We learned a bit about Vincent Van Gogh before starting this spooky lesson.

Students started off by making small dashes using oil pastels on the ground and sky. In the sky, they focused on using warm colors and making radiating circles to represent the stars. Next, they used watercolors to paint over their oil pastels.

The second day, I introduced them to Tim Burton and his creepy architecture. We noticed that a lot of things in his movies are crooked. We also noticed that his buildings were smaller at the bottom and bigger at the top. This helps to create an eerie feeling. Students took these observations to heart and drew, cut out, and glued down their haunted house.

​The final day, students used black and silver sharpies to add details to their houses, as well as some other details to their backgrounds (cats, gravestones, etc).