Van Gogh Inspired Collages

For this project we first learned about Van Gogh and then we were to make our own Van Gogh inspired collage. You could choose any city scape you would like as long as you had some representation of a Van Gogh piece. For example, the swirls and colorful sky. I chose to make my city scape a farm scape. Being from North Dakota and living in South Dakota now, there isn't much for big cities. The first step was to use tissue paper and glue those pieces down and then make your city scape with construction paper and finally add symbols or draw using oil pastels or crayons. If I were to do this project for my class I would do the same project but make them choose a city scape based on where they would like to live when they grow up. This would get them thinking and coming up with ideas of what type of place they would like to live in. I then would have them share with the class why they chose that place and what they chose as a representation for that place.