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How to paint Starry Night Step by Step

Hello everybody! Here you are one short video to teach you how to “paint” Starry Night step by step, the famous painting of a moonlit sky with stars in it by Dutch Post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh. It was painted in 1889 and it was one of the last paintings the painter made.

The Starry Night is an oil on canvas painting that depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941.

What did Van Gogh include in this famous painting? Quite a bit! Beneath the swirling sky, stars, and the moon is a small village. Look closely and you can see the tall spires, or steeples, of churches that were most likely similar to the ones in his Netherlands homeland. That large tree in the front left of the painting is called a cypress. Before this version, he had already painted the original Starry Night, which has acquired the name Starry Night Over The Rhone.

Indeed, Van Gogh soon became deeply interested in the subject of how the stars lit up the night sky, and painted several paintings that could easily warrant the name Starry Night.