10/8 Georgia O'Keeffe Landscape

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was a modern, American painter best known for her large, close-up paintings of flowers and New Mexico landscapes. Before she fell in love with the dessert, she fell in love with a photographer.  They married and bought a summer house at Lake George, NY.  Here she painted the area around her.  Below is an image of "Lake George, Autumn" what we are basing today's project on.

Hmm, my phone/camera was not cooperating so the project is on its side.  We will be working with liquid tempera paints to create this pretty fall landscape based on O'Keeffe's work. Students will use tints to paint the sky. I will show how to "hop" the brush to create the fall trees in warm colors. We will discuss tree branches and how they "branch out" from the trunk and then paint them in when the leaves are dry.

Here is a section of the project going the correct way.