Up Close & Personal Pastels

• Georgia O’Keeffe• Get inspired!• Visit her image gallery –

What did you think?

Georgia O’Keefe1887-1986

• Female American painter

• Married famous photographer, Steiglitz

• Modern and bold views

• Subject: landscape, nature, flowers, shells, skulls, west (New Mexico)

• Erotic, bright, expressive colors

• Cropped/up close

• New point of view!

Georgia’s thoughts…

• “I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me...shapes and ideas so near to me...so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down... „

Stop and Smell the Roses!

“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 the time to look at it-I will make even

busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see

of flowers. „

“I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're

cheaper than models and they

don't move. „

Viewfinder• Tool used to

crop an image

• Focus on a certain area

• Like when you look through a camera

Use viewfinder to make subject go off at least 3 edges

CROP

no edges of the object

are showingwhich

creates an Abstracted

view

Abstract

• Depicts real forms in a simplified way

• An allusion of the natural subject

• Your projects will not look like a flower or shell at first glance

Oil Pastel* A color stick, oil based

O’Keefe used:

oil paints

Watercolors

And pastels

Still life drawing!

• Drawing what you see from life

--- you CAN learn how to draw!

• You will learn observation skills

• Practice being able to make your hand do what your eyes are seeing. (NOT what you THINK you know)

Getting warmed

up!

Types of drawing:

• Gesture Drawing

= Quick drawing. Scribbles to record an entire object quickly

Contour Drawing

= Drawing that only uses outlines of objects

Blind Contour

• Don’t look at your paper – no cheating!

• Don’t pick up your pencil, pretend it is stuck on the paper!

• One continuous line

Gesture vs. Contour

PROJECT CRITERIA:-cropped view-goes off at least 3 edges-exaggerated pastel colors-use tints & shades-no white paper showing

Student Examples