Sunflower Painting

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

For art this week, we painted still life sunflowers in the style of Vincent Van Gogh. First we practised painting sunflowers. This activity was based on drawing what we saw. We watched a video of someone using the dabbing technique to do the centre of the sunflower. While painting we mixed and blended colours to make different shades of the same colour. We also used the same technique that was showed in the video which was dabbing and made sure we didn't overload the brush with paint. We then carried on to making the petals which was in a up then twirl motion. After we practised we moved on to painting the background. We then drew our vase with chalk. We painted the vase then started to paint our sunflowers. While painting we made sure to make use of all the space on the paper, used layers of paint and thought about the direction the brush was going. I really enjoyed this activity as I never knew about Vincent Van Gogh and I also enjoyed learning about still life paintings.