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Starry Seattle Night. 2nd Grade January Art Project West Mercer Elementary Art Enrichment Program. Today’s Project. Make our own “Starry Night ” with the setting in Seattle. Vincent Van Gogh. Dutch painter who lived mostly in France Painted every day scenes, landscapes, and people.
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Starry Seattle Night 2nd Grade January Art Project West Mercer Elementary Art Enrichment Program
Today’s Project • Make our own “Starry Night” with the setting in Seattle.
Vincent Van Gogh • Dutch painter who lived mostly in France • Painted every day scenes, landscapes, and people
Step 1- Cut stars and moon • Black paper in landscape position • Cut small circles out of yellow paper to represent stars • Cut crescent or circle for the moon • Position the shapes in the sky • Then glue them down
Step 2- Choose color scheme You may choose whether to create a • nighttime sky (using cool colors of different greens and blues, white and yellow too) • Or a sunrise/sunset sky with warm colors (yellow, white, orange, red)
Step 3- Oil Pastels • Draw glowing circles using short overlapping strokes. • Draw a few rows around the stars and moon in one color, then change • Keep adding swirl lines until sky is filled.
Step 4- Seattle Skyline • Use construction paper to create a Seattle landscape. • Draw the outline • then cut out • Paper should be long enough to go from side to side
Step 5- Add detail shapes • Add detail shapes of bridges, boats, trees, buildings, etc. • Arrange all shapes on paper first, then glue down.