1. Material List: Docent Clean up List: Docent Setup List:
Georgia O’Keeffe Flowers
Material List:
Docent Clean up List:
White paper
Oil pastels (large carton in bin)
Pencil
Blot paper for in between completed art work
Make sure names are on paper
Place completed art work in class bin with a piece of newspaper between each art work to avoid it blending!
Wipe down tables, refill any items and return to bins as you found them
Close the lens cap to turn the projector off
Send to parents about the lesson – thanks for doing this and leading the lesson!
Docent Setup List:
Give each student:
white paper
1 pencil
Per table:
1 basket of oil pastels
Docents you may chose to bring in fresh flowers for this or use the book and or images we have provided.

2. Georgia O’Keeffe Flowers
Welcome in the students. State the lesson name.

3. Today’s Lesson Skill Development:
Georgia O’Keeffe Flowers
Today’s Lesson
Skill Development:
Create an art piece using oil pastels of large flowers to create compositions similar to the artwork of O’Keeffe
Introduce students to the artwork of Georgia O’Keeffe
Use of blending to fill the paper with vibrant colored flowers
You can just read these points to the students so they get an idea of what they are going to be doing today and learning with doing this project.

4. Who was Georgia O’Keeffe?
Georgia O’Keeffe Flowers
Who was Georgia O’Keeffe?
She is an American artist.
She is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes.
O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American Modernism".
When you read the book aloud this will give students enough of an overview for this age group.
November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986

5. Let’s learn more about O’Keeffe through this book ...
Georgia O’Keeffe Flowers
Let’s learn more about O’Keeffe through this book ...
Read the accompanying book about Georgia O’Keeffe

6. ‘Oriental Poppies’ 1928 Georgia O’Keeffe Flowers Art@Booksin
Flowers fascinated Georgia and they were her favorite subject on canvas. She seems to have liked particular flowers - the calla lily, poppy, canna, iris, petunia, and jimson weed.
O'Keeffe painted Oriental Poppies in This stunning work was declared a groundbreaking, art masterpiece.
Please use as much of this detail as you are comfortable with, In "Oriental Poppies," O'Keeffe depicts two giant poppy flowers. Measuring 30" x 40", this oil painting is an explosion of brilliant colors on a vast canvas, lending a mesmerizing effect. O'Keefe used dazzling red and orange as the main color of the petals. The hollowed center and the inner contours of the flowers are painted in deep purple. The skillful shading and velvety finish of the petals accentuates the vibrancy of the flowers. "Oriental Poppies" almost looks like a close up photograph. O'Keeffe did not give any background to the painting, to artfully draw focus onto the flowers. The absence of context in the painting presents them in a new light as pure abstracts. "Oriental Poppies" exudes a startling pull, as if casting a hypnotic spell on the viewer.
Again, this piece is selected to show how large students need to draw their flowers. They need to fill the entire page and use bold bright pastels.
‘Oriental Poppies’ 1928

7. ‘Petunias’ Georgia O’Keeffe Flowers Art@Booksin
This piece is simply titled ‘Petunias’ it hangs in the De Young museum in San Francisco. This piece is selected to show how large students need to draw their flowers. They need to fill the entire page and use bold bright pastels.

8. Process: Draw the middle of the flower
Georgia O’Keeffe Flowers
Process:
Draw the middle of the flower
Draw big, giant petals (petals should touch all four sides of the paper)
Outline with oil pastel
Color the flower with two hues (one in the middle, and one near the edges)
Once finished place a piece of blotting paper (cream) between each art work so they do not smudge each other.
Emphasize to draw large, the flower should fill the page.
Remind students to use vibrant colors, use the pastel to outline the flower and add detail
Make sure name on back, put artwork away placing a piece of newspaper between each art work so they do not smudge each other

9. LESSON PLAN ADAPTED FROM MRS. BROWN’S ART
By Chelsea Woertink
September 2015
Revised October 2016 Tara Button, art history added from