For the Love of Art
Look at Starry Night. Give students a palette of sky blue regular blue, black and white tempera. Mix right onto the paper to make the sky. Challenge them to try and mix as many different shades of blue as possible. Lastly add the swirls with white. Second day, add hill, tree, and moon by cutting and gluing construction paper. They add stars, glow, and tree texture with oil pastels. Last create village with paper and glue sticks: houses, churches, libraries, schools, skycrapers, etc.
Silhouette of student drawn with lines; I like the way the lines follow the student's hair. I wonder if adding more directional lines (following a shape, rather than horizontal) would add or detract to the beautiful simplicity. I really like the hair; but would it be as successful on a short-haired student?
