van Gogh Flower Still Life, Oak Hill ES 12-13

Used with K-6

Materials:

• Tempera paint trays, each containing 7 paint colors and a paintbrush  (trays will be stored on racks, http://www.dickblick.com/products/tempera-paints-with-rack/?clickTracking=true )
• Extra paint brushes in various sizes for older students, if needed
• 11" x 14" pieces of white poster board
• Paper cups
• Paper towels
• Vase of silk Sunflowers 
• pencils

 Lesson & Activity:

• Show sample paintings and place out on display the Sunflower Vase for students to look at for inspiration while painting.  
• hand out 1 paint tray (brush included), one piece of poster board, one cup with small amount of water, and one folded paper towel to each student. Student can use their own pencils.
• Have students write their name on the label on the back of the poster board
• To create the sunflower painting: With pencil, have students lightly draw a vase, any shape. Then draw a table the vase is sitting upon, and then draw three circles for the center of each sunflower.  See step-by-step directions below.
• Very Important, when using the tempera paint: Instruct students to dip paintbrush into the water, THEN dab on paper towel, THEN dab onto tempera cakes.   It is very important to monitor water use. Unlike watercolors, only a VERY SMALL amount of water is needed to moisten the tempera cakes.  If using too much water, color will be very light. The less water, the brighter the color will be on the paper .
• Also, we need these paint cakes to stretch out over all classes in the school, so please watch to be sure the students are not overusing or damaging the paint cakes as they use them.
• Using the tempera paint, have the students first paint the vase, then the table, then the flowers.
• When finished, have the students paint flower stems, if needed, and fill in the background as desired if time permits, white background is fine for students who run out of time.

Clean Up:

•     Collect finished artwork and place in area designated by teacher to dry. If students do not overuse water, the paintings should dry in ½ hour to an hour.

•     Return CD to binder

•     Empty all water cups and discard used cups.

•     Rinse and dry paint brushes with paper towel, and place back into paint trays.

•     Clean up paint trays, if needed and place back onto racks for storage on cart.

•     Throw away used paper towels, clean up desk tops as needed.

•     Return Sunflower Vase to cart.

•     Return cart under the stairs, return key if you used the elevator.

•     THANKS!

Step-by-step directions

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with pencil lightly draw vase, any shape 

 draw horizontal line for table  

draw 3 circles for center of sunflowers  
 

Paint the flowers, vase, and table

Fill in  flower centers, stems, and background