The painting that had inspired me the most in my college career is Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night. The painting is simple, yet so dynamic to me. Starry Night was painted with oil on canvas in 1889. The painting was made from Van Gogh’s own inspiration and shows his view outside his asylum room window at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence at night, which is located in southern France. During the day, he painted it going by memory.
I recreated the painting using my own inspiration from the concepts used in the original painting. I used oil pastels on cardstock paper, which will include several shades of dark and light blues. The stars begin in a yellow pastel that eventually fades into purples or reds. The sky is then colored with several shades of blues and whites to give the artwork density. The lines in the artwork flow together to come together in rhythm. The small and large circles along the grey lines shows homes from afar.
My own inspiration addresses the same issues conceptually as the original artwork due to me re-creating the same view from the asylum. I pulled the same colors from the original painting, giving the accent color shades of blue and kept the stars spread across the paper. The difference I added into my own artwork was the hints of colors in each star the faded into the night sky. The majority of these colors were cool colors, but reds and oranges were still included. I have also decreased the amount of stars in the artwork, giving my piece only a few to show.