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Through Georgia's Eyes

The art of Georgia O'Keeffe will inspire students to create a flower painting while learning about primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.

Lesson Plan

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  • Paper

Steps

  • Step 1

    Review primary, secondary, and tertiary colors with students. Explain that two primary colors combine to form a secondary color (blue + yellow = green, red + yellow = orange, blue + red = purple). To get a tertiary color you'd mix a primary color with a secondary color.

  • Step 2

    Have students look at some of Georgia O'Keeffe's (1887-1986) flower paintings such as "Purple Petunia," "Canna, Red and Orange," or any others. Explain that O'Keeffe painted around 200 images of flowers and that she loved the natural beauty of their form and colors. Then have them paint a flower in her style using a combination of predominantly primary and secondary colors. They might embellish the work with additional colors for the stem and flower centers, for example.

  • Step 3

    Ask students to present their work and discuss the primary and secondary colors they used.

Standards

ARTS: Speculate about processes an artist uses to create a work of art.

ARTS: Apply criteria to explore and evaluate artistic work.

Adaptations

Ask students to write a poem about the flower they painted.

Have students make a flower collage based on one of Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings.