4th grade artist study...
While Georgia O'Keeffe created artwork with many different subjects, she was most well known for her paintings of flowers close up. Our 4th graders looked closely at the artists’ work and created artwork inspired by O’Keefe’s sometimes subtle and sometimes bold use of color using a foil paper embossing technique.
First Students chose a flower from a selection of photos Mrs. Penney had in the art room. They then drew them on cardboard and carefully glued yarn to each line.
Using foil paper they spread glue on the surface and gently pressed and smoothed it to reveal the yarn underneath...
then covered with black tempera and burnished most of it away.
The last step was to add color with sharpie markers.
Here are just a few examples of our finished work...
