Van Gogh Tissue Collage

The tissue collage was a project built off the Van Gogh finger painting that we created. We made a Cityscape nispired by using the same ideas from Starry Night. We started off using tissue paper and cut them into different shapes and designs with various colors. Then we glued them onto a 12 by 18 sheet of construction paper. After it was glued down, we had to take oil pastels and create bold lines to make it pop out more to the viewer. Lastly, We took black construction paper, cut out a city or farm by drawing out buildings and then glue it to the bottom of the page which resembled the foreground in "Starry Night."

As an extension activity, teachers could use tissue paper in a different way by tearing up the paper into small pieces and glue them down into a shape. Then they can draw over it and draw that shape they made. When I did my sophomore field experience one of the projects they did was they traced a leaf and inside the leaf was warm colors and outside the leaf was cool colors. They teared tissue paper up and glued it down and then the took a black marker over it and drew the leaf and the veins on it. So, if teachers do something similar to that they could create other projects similar to that one. This project helps students with creativity because it lets them design the background of the work of art.
MY TISSUE PAPER COLLAGEEEE :)