Art Appreciation - O'Keefe

 Our new artist that we have been working with is Georgia O'Keefe. She is known for her bright flowers and artistic views on nature. Here are a few of the projects we worked on during our artist study.

 I made art cards, a magnetic puzzle, and cards for our matching game. We listened to our artist song and danced around.

I showed J O'Keefe's pictures of flowers - the big, bright colors and asked her to create her own flower. I gave her the paper scrap bin and had her free cut her project. She didn't like the idea at first but then she got into it. This project was inspired by Laugh Paint Create.

Another project J worked on was to draw a large flower which took up most of her paper. She traced it with a sharpie and then used watercolors to paint it. This project was inspired by Pink and Green Mama.

The last project she worked on was to create a large 3-D flower from paper. I made some simple tracers for the petals and the leaves.

The result was stunning but I can tell you these were somewhat difficult for a kindergartener to put together. I had to staple the leaves because the glue wouldn't stick well. J really loved these and play with them for the rest of the day. This idea for this project came Housing a Forest.

Links

Working for the Classroom has a great 3-D flower project that I love. I just needed our projects to be finished in one day and this one took a couple of days. The result is really something, though.

Deep Space Sparkle has a great paper flower project. If I had access to more patterned paper, which I don't, I would have tried this one.

The Art of Ed had a downloadable O'Keefe project for your to try.

Life's A Craft Project has a tissue and paint project that looks awesome as well.

If you would like my printables for O'Keefe, please leave me a message and I will email them to you.  I am not an art teacher but I feel that it is important to include art appreciation in our regular school week. I hope this inspires you to create some art with your children.