4th grade clay tiles

The 4th graders learned about the life and work of the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh. We drew both Sunflowers and Starry Night, two of his most famous works of art. Van Gogh used a lot of paint which created rich colors and immense texture. To recreate this kind of texture, the students worked with clay. Clay is an easy medium to use when teaching about how to create texture. The students rolled out slabs if clay and used a paper square template to cut out a square. Using the painting as well as their drawing, they drew either Starry Night or Sunflowers into the clay When fired we glazed them and then they were fired again. The results were fantastic and the kids learned how clay can be used to recreate Van Gogh's use if texture.