{"id":977,"date":"2013-04-18T20:23:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T03:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/?p=977"},"modified":"2013-04-18T20:23:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T03:23:57","slug":"a-starry-night-in-the-style-of-vincent-van-gogh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/2013\/04\/18\/a-starry-night-in-the-style-of-vincent-van-gogh\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Starry Night&#8221; in the Style of Vincent Van Gogh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2013\/04\/004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-978\" title=\"004\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2013\/04\/004-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2013\/04\/004-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2013\/04\/004.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Students have been learning about Vincent Van Gogh.\u00a0 We read about his life and have been exploring some of his more famous paintings.\u00a0 With his &#8216;A Starry Night&#8217; we created our own versions using oil pastels as a basis and finishing it off with a watered down blue tempra wash.<\/p>\n<p>Students learned an important lesson\u00a0that they need to\u00a0ensure that they use a solid base of the oil pastels &#8211; especially with the light colours (white and yellow) &#8211; before doing the wash.\u00a0 While the white is not seen on the white paper beforehand, it is extremely important that it is present to repel the paint and become visible afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>When we saw the dried results we needed to go back and add in these vital details with more oil pastels.\u00a0 I think the results are quite striking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2013\/04\/007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-979\" title=\"007\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2013\/04\/007-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2013\/04\/007-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2013\/04\/007.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students have been learning about Vincent Van Gogh.\u00a0 We read about his life and have been exploring some of his more famous paintings.\u00a0 With his &#8216;A Starry Night&#8217; we created our own versions using oil pastels as a basis and finishing it off with a watered down blue tempra wash. Students learned an important lesson\u00a0that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/2013\/04\/18\/a-starry-night-in-the-style-of-vincent-van-gogh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;A Starry Night&#8221; in the Style of Vincent Van Gogh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}