Georgia O'Keefe

Georgia O'Keefe

L.I. Complete an artist study

Know about colours - complimentary

Use pastel to blend colours

Here is a photo of Georgia O’Keefe

3 Facts about this artist are…

1. Georgia O’keeffe is known for her beautiful paintings of flowers
2. Georgia’s eyesight became bad in 1972 and died in 1986
3. Her spouse ( Alfred Stieglitz ) accidentally showed Georgia’s paintings in his gallery. She got upset by she forgave him.

Here are three examples of her flower paintings

Flower - Lily Colours - Gold, Green, White, Black Background -Black Details - Background is Black and the flower which makes the flower stand out. The middle gold but stands out from the white.	Flower - Poppy Colours -Black, White and Red Background -White Details - Petals off the edge of the picture.The middle of the flower stands is the focus of the painting	Flower - Petunias Colours -Purple, White and Green Background - Details -  Petals are cut off on the edge of the page. Background makes the flowers stand out.

I like petunias best because the middle flower is the focus of the painting and she has also cropped out the edge of the flowers.

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I have decided to draw a Blue Morning Glory because it is a beautiful flower and the edge of the petals have overlapped of the painting.  

to make it like a Georgia O’Keefe flower I will overlap some petals outside of the painting.

Using this tool take 2 screenshots - paste them under here

The first is complimentary colours - this gives you the colour of the flower and the colour of the background.

Then do a shade one for the shades you can use for you flower

This week we are learning about Georgia O'keefe. We are doing this because we are drawing flowers and we want to make it look like Georgia O'keefe's flowers. I learnt that Georgia Okeefe's flower paintings are based on the middle of the flower and most of them have overlapping petals.