Katie actually dressed up for this photo shoot last summer when a fellow art teacher brought paints, paper, and a print of Starry Night to our writing group and asked us to make a list of our impressions and thoughts...What is the message of this piece? ... What feelings do we get from the colors, lines, shapes? What does the setting remind us of, and what are interesting things we find in the work?
After we wrote, she took the print away and asked us to paint our version of Starry Night. All of us painted our own renditions of the scene, each of us remembering different details, and some of us much better at capturing the essence of the original piece.
The part I loved, though, came afterward when we wrote about what we had painted, describing the message the painting might convey and what might make a good story from the setting. We then lifted words and phrases from the writing and painted them into the piece, up in the clouds, along the tree line, around the moon and stars...however the writing fit in.
Wish I could remember mine...my son was home from school and liked my painting and took it off with him ...
Ah, well...it's a beautiful Saturday and time to work in the yard. All of these thoughts came from a journey into my office to check my email when I came across this picture of my incredibly loyal friend Katie dressed as Van Gogh... (At least I left her ear alone!)
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