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Creative photo art projects around the Ugly Duckling, a children's book, can open students' eyes to seeing life within an entirely new way. In this lesson, students will photograph old, rusty, discarded and unusually placed items found everywhere. Using photo enhancing software, they're going to then develop a picture that can take what others may have seen as ugly, turning it into something beautiful. (Note: If the school doesn't have photo enhancing software, then Gimp, the industry free download, works extremely well.) Darkness and light are themes that run heavily through Van Gogh's work. Darkness and lightweight reflected his wish create beauty, his feelings of inadequacy, and his desire to touch the souls of men. For instance, Starry Night draws the viewer to the painting of a sleeping village with its swirls of light as well as rich evening sky.