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Learning Objectives
Oil pastels are a good blending and mixing dry medium, so the students can incorporate previous learning of color mixing in to this new medium. Identifying horizon lines are important for any future coursework they would take in art, as well as contour lines.
Materials
Precut sheets of 18” x 18” black paper, sheets of 18” x 6” black paper for testing colors, sketchbooks, oil pastels, colored crayons, crepe paper for table protection, paper towels, wipes, buckets of soapy and clean water, “The Starry Night” book, visual aids, project sample
Vocabulary
Horizon line, contour line, blending, van Gogh, landscape, horizontal, diagonal, vetical, foreground, middle ground, background
Artists
Vincent van Gogh, Hilary van Santen
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Lesson
This lesson introduces students to landscapes, oil pastels, and the artist Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh's landscape serve as an excellent example for students as his brushstrokes are large, visible, and full of color - all which serve as excellent discussion points with students.
Using oil pastels students are to create landscapes either from imagination, using one of the photographs of landscapes, or one of van Gogh's paintings. Using oil pastels on black sheets of paper helps to make them pop, and students will be encouraged to use lines that swirl and twirl to create a sense of movement and life, as well as to blend colors.
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