How to paint Van Gogh's Starry Night in watercolour
Автор: Liz Chaderton Studio
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Van Gogh's The Starry Night is one of the most popular paintings in the world. Originally painted in oils, let's try using watercolour and a highly textured surface to paint an interpretation of this iconic painting.
You can download a high res version from Wikipedia: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night
To create the texture, I used an off cut of water paper and fixed it tons wooden board with pva/white glue, then applied three thin coats of watercolour ground. After painting I sealed it with a cold wax medium.
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A bit of art history:
Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painted in June 1889, showing the view from the window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, with the addition of an imaginary village. Van Gogh was in the grip of depression and paranoia, but continued to see the wonder and beauty in the world around him.
The painting's celestial elements include Venus, which was visible in the sky at the time, though the moon’s depiction is not astronomically accurate. The cypress trees in the foreground were exaggerated in scale compared to other works. Van Gogh's letters suggest he viewed them primarily in aesthetic rather than symbolic terms. The village in the painting is an imaginary addition, based on sketches rather than the actual landscape seen from the asylum.
The Starry Night has been subject to various interpretations, ranging from religious symbolism to representations of Van Gogh’s emotional turmoil. Some art historians link the swirling sky to contemporary astronomical discoveries, while others see it as an expression of Van Gogh’s personal struggles.
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