Painting Sunflowers

LI: To paint a still life of sunflowers in the style of Vincent Van Gogh.

This week in Art, we painted a still life of sunflowers, in the style of Vincent Van Gogh. First we practiced painting sunflowers. We watched a video on how to make sunflowers, as we didn't know how to. We then painted our background for our sunflowers. We also drew a vase and circles for our sunflowers, using chalk. When we painted our sunflowers, we thought of the tone and shading needed, made use of all the space that was available, used layers of paint, mixed and blended the colors to make different shades, created sharp edges and lines, thought about the brush stroke direction, dabbed the brush and didn't overload the brush with paint. I really enjoyed painting these sunflowers as it was very fun to do.