Create your own art exhibit just like the museum! Every week we will give you an art project that is inspired by a famous artist. We encourage you to make your own museum exhibition by hanging your artwork on a wall in your home.Van Gogh’s Starry Night
Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter. This piece was painted in June 1889. It describes the view from the artist’s window at the asylum Saint-Remy-de-Provence. It was painted with oil on canvas. This piece can be seen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
We encourage you to learn more about Van Gogh and the style in which he painted. What other work has this artist created? How did his life influence his painting style?
Create your own Starry Night from what you see outside your window!
Items you will need:
· Paint, crayons or colored paper 
·Painters tape
·Scissors
·Masking tape
1: Look out your window at the night sky. Sketch with a pencil on a piece of white paper what you see and decide what you want your starry night to look like.
2: If you have colored paper, trace the shapes of the night sky you sketched onto colored paper and cut out the shapes. You can add other shapes that you would like to include such squares, rectangles, circles and lines. If you do not have colored paper, you can use crayons, markers, or colored pencils to color in the shapes of your original sketch and then proceed to cut out the shapes.
3: Use painter’s tape or masking tape to attach your shapes to the wall to make your night sky composition. If you do not have tape, you can attach your shapes to other paper, poster paper, newspaper, foil, or even just lay your shapes without taping them on your floor.
4: Install your Art Piece! Use tape to put your piece together on the wall. Fold the tape behind your shape so that the tape is not visible on the wall. Tip: you can recycle the tape you used to create your wall sketch. Fold it over into small pieces and use it to attach your shapes.
5: When you are finished, take a picture of your Starry Night and share it with the museum on our website and social media! Use #wamcreateclub to tag your posts!
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