Vincent Van Gogh's Bedroom

High School - Art 1 - Analogous Colors

This is the end point all those value scales were building up to... a reproduction of Vincent Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles.
The catch is that students could only use the 2 Primary colors picked for their Analogous Chart, along with black and white. Any color variations derived from mixing these initial colors were allowed.

Students were provided with a colored print of the original painting (image on right) and a couple "coloring pages" of the same (below).

After drawing the bedroom on a big 9x18 in. paper, and referring to their Analogous Chart, they did one or two practice run of color scheme with color pencils on the coloring page, to have a better idea of how they wanted this to look.

It took 2 weeks to get to this point and another 3 to complete the painting. This was a really good unit, with a nice progression of difficulty and paint mastery. From the look of the final product, I'd say this was time well spent.

 

 

  

 

It is interesting that the Blue/Red pairs was the most sought after, with Blue/Yellow coming in second. Only 3 students chose the Red/Yellow combination.


Material:

• 9x18 in. paper
• Tempera paint

This is a 3 part Unit:

1. Monochromatic scale
2. Analogous Chart
3. Vincent van Gogh's Bedroom