Georgia O'Keeffe is an inspiring American modern artist. I thought the girls might be particularly interested in her because she is a woman and because she lived not so very long ago. We watched a short video of her flower paintings (very nicely matched to music - thank you youtube). We learned about how her paintings of flowers sometimes became abstractdepending on the point of view and cropping she used on her canvas.
I made little 2" square viewfinders for the girls and using those, they "zoomed in" on photographs of flowers until they came up with their favorite composition. They then painted on a 12" square stretched canvas with acrylic paints. They turned out gorgeous. I wish you could see the true vibrancy of their colors and their entire works of art (darn my little scanner).
Tenlee
Mikayla
Alyssa
Kadence
Elena
Olivia
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