Georgia O'Keefe
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Taken from Art Smarts 4 Kids: Georgia O'Keeffe biography.:
"She simplified her subjects so that nothing remained except the most important parts. Click here to view more than 200 of O'Keeffe's paintings.
In the 1930s, O’Keeffe took some trips to New Mexico. She loved it so much that she eventually moved there. She painted lots of paintings of the mountains, the desert, and the adobe houses. She especially loved to paint pictures of animal skulls. Sometimes she even painted desert landscapes and skulls on the same canvases.
She continued to paint until she lost her eyesight. She died in 1986."
Directions: Look at the following 7 paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe. Draw 4 of them. Practice shading the bones in pencil in the same way that O'Keeffe used shading to give the illusion that the bones are 3-dimensional.
Taken from Art Smarts 4 Kids: Georgia O'Keeffe biography.:
"She simplified her subjects so that nothing remained except the most important parts. Click here to view more than 200 of O'Keeffe's paintings.
In the 1930s, O’Keeffe took some trips to New Mexico. She loved it so much that she eventually moved there. She painted lots of paintings of the mountains, the desert, and the adobe houses. She especially loved to paint pictures of animal skulls. Sometimes she even painted desert landscapes and skulls on the same canvases.
She continued to paint until she lost her eyesight. She died in 1986."
Directions: Look at the following 7 paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe. Draw 4 of them. Practice shading the bones in pencil in the same way that O'Keeffe used shading to give the illusion that the bones are 3-dimensional.
Week 7: Multimedia Bellringers
Please complete your bellringer on your bellringer sheet during the first 5 minutes of class.