Express Yourself with Vincent Van Gogh
CREATE YOUR OWN ART QUILT IN VAN GOGH'S FOOTSTEPS
CLASS INFO - PLEASE READ!
Welcome to Quilt Your Masterpiece!
TOOLS needed
How artists "flow"
Safety Tips and Troubleshooting
Tips an Tricks for THINKIFIC, your learning platform
How to use your STASH or SCRAPS for this project
How do choose THREAD for this project
WELCOME - PLEASE READ!
THEORY PART 1: Learning to Look
- Downloadable High Resolution Van Gogh Painting
- First Impressions
ASSIGNMENT: Discuss Impressions in Facebook Group
EXERCISE 1 - Quilt Painting Part 1: Cutting Your Scraps
EXERCISE 1 - Quilt Painting Part 2: Straight Lines
EXERCISE 1 - Quilt Painting Part 3: Curvy Lines
- BONUS: Quilt Painting on a mechanical/Vintage machine
THEORY Part 2: Composition: "Starry Night" and "Night Cafe"
- Starry Night Digital File with GRID
EXERCISE 2 - Sketching a template Part 1: Drawing on Paper
EXERCISE 2 - Part 2: Testing our marking tools
EXERCISE 2 - Part 3: Drawing on fabric
EXERCISE 2 - Part 4: Cutting and labeling our fabric sketch
- How many colors can you spot?
- How Vincent van Gogh uses color
- Quiz: Which Color Contrast dominates in "Starry Night?"
- Color Contrasts explained
- Expressive colors and motifs
ASSIGNMENT: Discuss Colors and Motifs on Facebook!
- Color Meanings - revealed!
EXERCISE 1: Cutting into the "good" fabric
Linework Sketch - A3
EXERCISE 2 - Quilt Painting Backgrounds Part 1: A3 square
EXERCISE 2 - Quilt Painting Backgrounds Part 2: Details
EXERCISE 2 - Quilt Painting Backgrounds Part 3: A2 & A1 square
- Van Goghs Inspirations - Expressionism within art history
- Linework and Texture of Expressionism and Beyond
- Linework Sketch A4 "Moon" block
EXERCISE 1 - A4 "Moon Block" - Shapes
EXERCISE 1 - A4 "Moon Block" - Halo
EXERCISE 1 - A4 "Moon Block" - Color Mixing
EXERCISE 2 - A3 Stars & Color Mixing Part 1
EXERCISE 2 - A3 Stars & Color Mixing Part 2
EXERCISE 3: A2 Stars
EXERCISE 4: A1 Star
ASSIGNMENT: Show us your Moon and Star blocks!
- Check-In: Flow & Perfectionism
- RHYTHM exercise: Aerobic painting
EXERCISE 1: - B3 & B4 Marking important elements
EXERCISE 1 - B3: Background
EXERCISE 1 - B4 Part 1: Skies
EXERCISE 1 - B4 Part 2: Hills
EXERCISE 2: B1 Background & Stars
EXERCISE 3: B2 Background & Stars
ASSIGNMENT: Share your Flow images in the Facebook group!
- How color contrasts affect spatial order
Which color contrasts can you spot? Click ALL that Apply!
ASSIGMENT: Find Color Contrasts in Starry Night
- Color Contrasts and Space in Starry Night
EXERCISE 1: JOINING BLOCKS - Part 1: Ironing Prep
JOINING BLOCKS - Part 2: Join A4 & B4
EXERCISE 2: Join A1 & B1
EXERCISE 3: Join Swirl Block: A2, A3, B2 and B3
ASSIGNMENT: Show us your progress!