Instructor Example
Assignment Details:
We will be exploring the life and artwork of Vincent Van Gogh.
We will be learning oil pastel and chalk pastel techniques.
Van Gogh Inspired Landscape Grading:
Time management: Student used class time to complete assignment (not on phone, gaming or watching YouTube)
Effort: student put effort to achieve the goals of the assignment
Creativity: student added their own creative style to the assignment
Landscape: foreground, middle ground, background
Applied oil pastel or chalk pastel techniques we learned in class
Applied Van Gogh style with mixing colors, and visible brush strokes
(Doesn’t look like a coloring page colored with crayons)
Used one of the eight landscapes provided to the class (Google Slides)
We will be exploring the life and artwork of Vincent Van Gogh.
We will be learning oil pastel and chalk pastel techniques.
- Students will select ONE of the 8 landscape options in these slides to create a simplified landscape drawing using Vincent Van Gogh’s style as inspiration. Focus, emphasize and apply the elements of art and principles of design of line, texture, movement.
- After the selection has been made, the student will SIMPLIFY the landscape into its most basic parts (Background, Middle ground and Foreground). The landscape does not need to have every little shrub, cloud or tree for example, to still look like that landscape. Students will draw their simplified landscape in PENCIL on a piece of paper. THE LANDSCAPE SHOULD STILL CLOSELY RESEMBLE THE CHOSEN LANDSCAPE, BUT BE SIMPLIFIED INTO BROADER SPACES THAT WILL THEN BE FILLED WITH VARIOUS LINES. You can add OR change the sun and clouds in the sky if you wish.
The next steps are very important… - In the first slide show you learned about Vincent Van Gogh’s style and how he used LINE to express MOVEMENT & TEXTURES. You will do the same in every space of your landscape.
- After your landscape sections have been drawn, you will fill them in entirely (pencil first!) with various Lines that express either a movement or texture. For example, a wavy water line that repeats in a pattern in a water section. Or a radiating dashed line around a sun that expand outward to the ends of the paper. Or a repeating shape line in the clouds. Or Zig zags for mountains. Or hatching lines for grass. Each space should have a line of its own that best expresses its movement OR texture, whichever applies.
- After you have drawn lines in every section that show either texture or movement that captures the essence of that section, BE SURE TO FIRST CHECK THE CRAFTSMANSHIP of your lines because each line will be traced in colored marker or colored pencil.
- Lines should not be on top of one another but laid out in a repeating pattern format.
- When you are satisfied with all pencils lines, outline all lines in colored marker. Try to match up the corresponding color with what makes sense to what color would be true for that landscape section.
Creative Ideas: - Using watercolor paper: Use crayons to outline your lines then paint in your image. The watercolor paint will glide over the areas that you drew in crayon because it’s wax.
Van Gogh Inspired Landscape Grading:
Time management: Student used class time to complete assignment (not on phone, gaming or watching YouTube)
Effort: student put effort to achieve the goals of the assignment
Creativity: student added their own creative style to the assignment
Landscape: foreground, middle ground, background
Applied oil pastel or chalk pastel techniques we learned in class
Applied Van Gogh style with mixing colors, and visible brush strokes
(Doesn’t look like a coloring page colored with crayons)
Used one of the eight landscapes provided to the class (Google Slides)
