"A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many
associations with a flower... still, in a way, nobody
really sees a flower, really, it is so small....
So I said to myself, I'll paint what I see... but I'll
paint it big and they will be surprised into taking
time to look at it... even busy New Yorkers [will]
take time to see what I see of flowers."
- Georgia O’Keeffe
The American artist Georgia O'Keeffe has always been a favorite of mine. Our 4/5 class studied the use of line, color and form in her gorgeous flower paintings, then created their own flowers using oil pastels on paper, working from photos as a reference. Drawing the flowers oversized and filling the paper forces the viewer to see the flowers more as abstract shapes than actual flowers. Click on any image to get to the picture gallery for many more images.
