For arts we had to make a collage of our selves. I really like snowboarding and football, these two elements are in it very much.

Van Gogh portrait

Letter drawings Van Gogh style,

Hey Sven,

How are you doing, I want to tell you about the drawing that we had to make in Van Gogh style. What special is about this style is that he only used stripes to express his paintings. I want to know your opinion about the drawings beneath. It wasn’t only the case to make just two drawings, but you had to make it two different moods. The left one is the happy mood and the right one is the bad mood. You can’t clearly see it with the facial interpretations, but you can see it with the colours of the background. The left drawing has shining colours and the right one has dark colours.

The assignment was to make two different moods with opposite colours. You had to know the colour circle for this. On the colour circle you can see which colours are opposite of each other. For example: blue and purple are opposite of orange and red is opposite of green. I thought I succeeded with that and the teacher also said so. Now I am going to tell something about the left painting. This is the happy one as I already mentioned above. I used blue yellow and green to make a happy background and the opposite colours for the clothing’s. The colours I used in the sad drawing for the background I used it for these clothing’s. For my hair I used brown and black and a little bit of white. The most difficult part of the assignment was to mix the right colours to get the right colour for your face. As you can see on the picture below my face is a bit greenish. That is because I put a little too much yellow in the mixture.

The right drawing is the sad one. I used brown, red and a bit of black for the background. For my face I used a bit of gold, brown, a bit too much yellow, white and red. As you can see, my face is a little bit greenish, because of the too much yellow. For my clothes I used opposite colours as the background. The colours I used on the background of the happy drawing, I also used in the cloths of the sad one.

At the end I got a six and a half for this assignment, I totally agree with that because the background is good, but the colour of my face hasn’t done well. The teacher said to me that my face is directly attached to my body that was also a bad thing.

Lots of love from your best friend,

Niek Lauret