Children love the process of painting and will adore this lesson creating painted paper to use in this mixed media project. This lesson uses tempera paint, construction paper, and oil pastels for a perfect Spring project. Also, you can easily print the coloring sheets and create stunning paintings using simple watercolors and colored pencils.In May 1890, during the final three weeks before leaving the hospital in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted a beautiful group of four still lifes, two painting