Today on our second field trip of the week, we went to Amsterdam to visit the museum of the world-renown artist Vincent Van Gogh.

Our first task of the day was to find out who Vincent was? Well, we know him as a famous artist, known throughout the world but when he was alive he was unknown and poor. After his death, his painting completely changed the way the World looked at painting and some of his paintings are the most recognisable images in history.

 

 

Vincent has also inspired many other artists from writers, filmmakers and musicians.

After viewing some of Van Gogh’s most famous paintings, the children were inspired to create their own masterpieces.

The first artwork is this recreation of one of Van Gogh’s self-portraits by Jamie. It’s a great likeness!

Above is Dylan’s interpretation of the painting Sunflowers.

Lucy has created this wonderful version of sunflowers. Vincent’s work is all about vibrancy and Lucy has definitely captured this here.

Both George (above) and Zac (below) recreated one of my favourite Van Gogh paintings, Starry Night.

Alesha also draws inspiration from Starry Night.

Looks like this painting is one of your favourites too. Here’s Gregor with his version.

Daniel has completed his Virtual Field Trip Logbook for today.

Here is a closer look at his sunflower sketch.

Ibrahim has also finished his logbook entry for the Van Gogh Museum and I’m sure art historians will be pleased that he thinks that Vincent was “a decent artist.”

Here are a few presentations that I received yesterday after the blog was published.

Lucy completed her animal research with the sloth.

Lucy has also created a very colourful and creative food web for the sloth. I love the happy fruit 😃!

This is Kameron’s Kola PowerPoint.

Here is another tiger presentation from Dylan.

Daniel completed his Virtual Field Trip Logbook for yesterday’s trip to San Diego Zoo.

Ibrahim’s logbook.

This is Alesha’s logbook entry on elephants…

… a close look at her beautiful sketch. Fantastic!

Delisha looked at panda when we went to San Diego.

Finally, this is Jamie’s presentation on the honey badger. I’m sure that you agree that the children have been working very hard so far in Field Trip Week.