Earlier this year, we studied Van Gogh and we collaborated to recreate some of his most famous works. Van Gogh was born in 1853 in The Netherlands. He was famous for using bold colours.
First, we used pastels to each make a sunflower. Van Gogh painted the two paintings in his Sunflower series in the 1880s. We looked at the colours he used and then made our own sunflower. Two of the boys made a vase for our sunflowers. 
Next, we looked at The Starry Night. The Starry Night was painted by Van Gogh in 1889. It is made up of lots of different blues and greys. Ms Sexton found a picture of The Starry Night online and sketched the main features very lightly with pencil (using our whiteboard as a projector)! We divided up the picture into 18 pieces and then took a piece each. It was really difficult to work collaboratively because we were all using different hues of blues. We had to keep checking with each other, but even then, it was really difficult to match colours. If we were doing it again, we’d start with one piece from the centre and gradually work out to the edges. It was good fun though and we liked the end result.
This month, we’ve been working on Mondrian. We’ll post his display when we’ve all finished.
Who’s your favourite artist?
11:03 pm on January 26th, 2014
I like the art