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    Georgia O'Keeffe was an American artist known for her paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, and landscapes from the 1920s onward. She simplified floral subjects so that the lines flowed better and allowed for a focus on beauty and form. O'Keeffe often filled the entire canvas with her subject and the images sometimes spill over the edges. The document provides instructions for an art project where students examine natural objects through a magnifying glass, draw close-up images filling paper squares, and then enlarge one drawing to fill a large sheet of paper and complete it using paint, pastels, or chalk.

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    Georgia O'Keeffe was an American artist known for her paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, and landscapes from the 1920s onward. She simplified floral subjects so that the lines flowed better and allowed for a focus on beauty and form. O'Keeffe often filled the entire canvas with her subject and the images sometimes spill over the edges. The document provides instructions for an art project where students examine natural objects through a magnifying glass, draw close-up images filling paper squares, and then enlarge one drawing to fill a large sheet of paper and complete it using paint, pastels, or chalk.

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    Georgia O'Keeffe was an American artist known for her paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, and landscapes from the 1920s onward. She simplified floral subjects so that the lines flowed better and allowed for a focus on beauty and form. O'Keeffe often filled the entire canvas with her subject and the images sometimes spill over the edges. The document provides instructions for an art project where students examine natural objects through a magnifying glass, draw close-up images filling paper squares, and then enlarge one drawing to fill a large sheet of paper and complete it using paint, pastels, or chalk.

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    Georgia O'Keefe

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    Georgia O'Keeffe was an American artist known for her paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, and landscapes from the 1920s onward. She simplified floral subjects so that the lines flowed better and allowed for a focus on beauty and form. O'Keeffe often filled the entire canvas with her subject and the images sometimes spill over the edges. The document provides instructions for an art project where students examine natural objects through a magnifying glass, draw close-up images filling paper squares, and then enlarge one drawing to fill a large sheet of paper and complete it using paint, pastels, or chalk.

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    Art in the Style of …

    Georgia O’Keefe

    Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American
    artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe was a major figure in American art
    from the 1920s. She is mainly known for paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal
    bones, and landscapes in which she combined abstraction and representation.
    Representation is drawing or painting things as you see them. Abstraction changes
    representational accuracy, often exaggerating or simplifying it.

    Georgia O’Keefe simplified the flowers so they would


    be more pleasing and interesting, and allow the lines to
    flow better. She was looking for beauty in the flow of
    the lines.

    O’Keefe filled the entire canvas. There is usually very


    little space around the flower, and often the image spill
    over the sides and off the edge of the canvas.
    Sometimes it is even difficult to tell what the image is.

    Materials:

    Objects from nature (leaves, shells, flowers, etc.)

    Magnifying glass

    Large art paper

    Pencil
    Chose medium – paint, pastel, chalk

    Procedure:

    Divide a large sheet of paper into 4 squares. Look carefully at examples of


    O’Keefe’s work, and then at some interesting natural objects with a magnifying
    glass. Look at them like artists – what is the most interesting part of the object?
    How do the lines move? What are the colours, what shades and tones do you see?

    Draw in each square on the page in pencil, using magnification, so that you are
    drawing a close-up image. Your pictures should fill up each square. Decide which
    one you would like to blow up for you project.

    Redraw your picture with light pencil lines to fill up a large size piece of paper.
    Complete your picture by painting in the image, or colouring it with pastels or
    coloured chalk.

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