GEORGIA OKEEFFE! Who doesn't love some Georgia O'keeffe inspired artwork? These first graders sure did!
I started this lesson out with having the some images of O'keeffe flowers up on the projector and the lights were off when they walked in the room. I got to explain to them that we were going to be learning about an artist today but first we had to take a look at some of her work! I had the students think for a minute about what they thought they were seeing on the board. Then they got to share their ides with the class, "TORNADO, the inside of our body, a human heart, a hurricane, an upside down lollipop, frozen ice cream, melting ice cream" needless to say, their creativity and imagination was just PRICELESS.
After I got to call on a decent amount of students to share their ideas about what they were seeing on the board, then I told them that these were actually images of flowers that O'keeffe had created! We talked about she did not draw the whole flowers but she loved to draw just parts of flowers. The students recognized that they were so special because they were zoomed in, and really big and they touched all four sides of her paper!
I printed off black and white outline photos of many different kinds of flowers and had the students use viewfinders to find an interesting spot on their flower that they were going to draw. After they found their interesting spot, they got to sketch their flower out onto 7x7 inch black construction paper. We then talked about all of the cool things you can do with oil pastels, how to blend them together, how to layer them on top of each other etc. Then they were instructed to cover their whole paper and to choose warm or cool colors. They absolutely loved this project and loved seeing what they could do with the oil pastels!
The learning objectives for this lesson are:
I started this lesson out with having the some images of O'keeffe flowers up on the projector and the lights were off when they walked in the room. I got to explain to them that we were going to be learning about an artist today but first we had to take a look at some of her work! I had the students think for a minute about what they thought they were seeing on the board. Then they got to share their ides with the class, "TORNADO, the inside of our body, a human heart, a hurricane, an upside down lollipop, frozen ice cream, melting ice cream" needless to say, their creativity and imagination was just PRICELESS.
After I got to call on a decent amount of students to share their ideas about what they were seeing on the board, then I told them that these were actually images of flowers that O'keeffe had created! We talked about she did not draw the whole flowers but she loved to draw just parts of flowers. The students recognized that they were so special because they were zoomed in, and really big and they touched all four sides of her paper!
I printed off black and white outline photos of many different kinds of flowers and had the students use viewfinders to find an interesting spot on their flower that they were going to draw. After they found their interesting spot, they got to sketch their flower out onto 7x7 inch black construction paper. We then talked about all of the cool things you can do with oil pastels, how to blend them together, how to layer them on top of each other etc. Then they were instructed to cover their whole paper and to choose warm or cool colors. They absolutely loved this project and loved seeing what they could do with the oil pastels!
The learning objectives for this lesson are:
- The students will understand the components of O’Keeffe’s flowers
- The students will understand how to draw big enough to fill up their entire paper
- The students will understand why their drawing does not look like a flower when they are finished sketching - because we are only drawing part of a flower just like O’Keeffe
The Academic Language:
- Georgia O'Keeffe
-oil pastels
-Blending