Submitted by Beth Elzinga, an art educator from CVCS/NCCA in Ferrisburgh, VT.
Objectives:
Identification:
Students will be directed to observe the shapes and lines that make up a flower.
Historical:
Students will look at the work of Georgia O'Keeffe.
Creation:
Students will create a flower drawing and/or painting.
Appreciation:
Students will learn to appreciate the art created not only by them, but by others as well.
What You Need:
Watercolor paper
Watercolor pencils
Pastels & crayons
Heavy weight paper
Photos of all kinds of flowers or use a live flower
Sealer for the pastels ( you can use an 80% glue 20% water mixture - sprayed on using a glass cleaner bottle)
Georgia O'Keeffe Reproductions
What You Do:
After a discussion about Georgia O'Keeffe and showing reproductions of her MAGNIFIED flower paintings, students are to choose one of the photos of flowers to reproduce.
They were to concentrate only on the flower itself, not the leaves or background.
They are to fill the whole paper with their flower.
They are to look closely at the center of it.
This can be done in any medium.
In my classes K-2 used crayon, 3-4 used pastels and 5-6 used watercolor pencils.
The teacher should spray sealer on the pastel paintings.
The results were beautiful and all the students really enjoyed it. Even the Boys!
Georgia O'Keeffe : One Hundred Flowers
by Georgia O'Keeffe, Nicolas Callaway, Nicholas Callaway
A collection of 100 famous and extravagantly beautiful flowers is available in an unprecedented miniature trade paperback edition.
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