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Van Gogh Sunflowers

flowers painting Oct 22, 2022

I found myself diverting my walk to the photocopier to walk through my colleague's art classroom of Year 10 students and I was SO inspired by her students! We have a bit of a crush on Van Gogh among our teaching team, I have been working on some Starry Night felting with textiles, and this gorgeous group of students were busily perfecting their sunny sunflowers with Gogh like prowess. There results were so individual and equally fantastic.

I couldn't help but want to try this project out myself and was equally intrigued by how engaged each student was in their artwork. I almost felt as I was interrupting to ask "can you show me how did you do that?

The students revealed to me that this painting project was largely self directed with a few key guidelines from their teacher and a great online tutorial to follow (below). They first watched the tutorial together as group, then started again at the beginning and individually paced themselves throughout the project over the course of about 4-6 lessons. The creativity was in full flow and they went deep into exploring acrylic paint. This project could also be completed in one or two sittings of a shorter time frame and have great success with younger year levels.

As a teaching staff we were so inspired by this class we got together for a painting session one night after school!