For this unit, the 5th graders learn about color theory (how colors
contrast and blend with each other, color properties, color wheel
information), observation drawing techniques, scientific parts of
a flower, and the life and work of the artist Georgia O'Keeffe.
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Georgia O'Keeffe quotes:
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world
for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in
the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them
to see it whether they want to or not."
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"Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the
flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower -- and
what is my experience if it is not the color?"
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"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not
ignore its beauty."
2 comments:
What a wonderful way to see all the students art projects. I look forward to more postings.
Keeping interest in a painting is important. One of the best ways to do this in a landscape painting is to create distance. The first thing to remember is the farther away something is the less detail it will have. also it will be lighter in color than something closer.
flower paintings
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