I was so excited to try this out with my 4th graders as a continuation on learning about Georgia O’Keeffe and it didn’t disappoint! I can’t wait to hang it up on the wall above their lockers with their other flower drawings (see previous post on that below)!
The artwork below was created by Ms. Eagleston’s 4th grade class during one 40 minute art class. It was a collaborative enlarged flower drawing using oil pastels of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Red Poppy painting. Scroll down below it to view the printed photo of O’Keeffe’s work students observed.
(Photo below of everyone’s drawing glued together. Total image size 30″ x 36″)
(Photo below of the printed photo of her painting “Red Poppy No. VI” that has been cropped a little, with a grid drawn on it. Each student received one 1 1/4″ square to draw)
(Photo below is of Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Red Poppy, No. VI” in it’s entirety)
Each student got a tiny 1 1/4” square section of the photo to copy on a 6” square of 80# drawing paper. Each tiny photo had a number written on the back as well as the word “Top” along the top edge, so students knew how to view their image before drawing. Students wrote their corresponding number on the back of their 6″ paper as well as the word “top” along the top edge. This would make assembling the flower a whole lot easier for me later on!
They then drew the lines and shapes first with pencil then colored in trying to best match the colors of the print out.
Once complete, I brought them all home and assembled together on large white paper with hot glue.
PLEASE NOTE: The photos of students working below are from Mrs. Roberts class, and observed a different flower image by O’Keeffe to copy. (Unfortunately I didn’t have a chance to snap pics of kids working on the red poppy flower).
4/10/18 UPDATE!! View Mrs. Roberts classes finished collaborative flower drawing below these “in process” pics!
Any takers on trying to guess which flower their working on???!!!!!!!
(Below is Mrs. Roberts Classes collaborative flower drawing of Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Pink Tulip, 1926”)
(This was a bit tricky to create trying to have everyone’s lines connect! In retrospect, I think selecting an image with less line changes/ shapes and colors would have been more successful, but I LOVE this painting so much I wanted to give it a go and see what would happen. Although it’s a bit fragmented, it’s still VERY beautiful and I love the attention to detail students put into each individual section!! Awesome work everyone! )
(Below is a selection of the image by O’Keeffe I used to create the grid. )
(Below is Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting “Pink Tulip, 1926” in its entirety.)
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