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Georgia O’Keeffe: Making the Small Stuff Seem Important Georgia Totto O'Keeffe November 15,1887- March 6, 1986 American artist.

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1 Georgia O’Keeffe: Making the Small Stuff Seem Important Georgia Totto O'Keeffe November 15,1887- March 6, 1986 American artist.

2 Red Poppy Georgia O’Keeffe She is chiefly known for paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes.

3 “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way — things I had no words for.” “Still – in a way – nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small – we haven’t time ’So I said to myself – I’ll paint what I see – what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it – I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers” -Georgia O’Keefe

4 Georgia painted scenes of the desert when she lived in New Mexico Georgia painted New York City when she lived there with her husband

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6 Red Purple Blue Green Yellow Orange Secondary Colors Purple Green Orange The Color Wheel

7 Secondary Colored Pansies 1.Draw the flower with a center, black zig zags, and petals- Make it BIG! -have some petals touch the edges of the paper 2. Fill the background with leaves -Color the center with orange -Color the leaves with greens –light and dark -Color the petals with purple -Use the q-tip to mix red and blue- use only one end of the q- tip – push the paint in the direction of the petals


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