an art project for kids

1. the world with Georgia O'KeeffeThe world of
Georgia O’keeffe

2. Georgia O’Keeffe was an ARTIST
• Georgia O’Keeffe was
born on November 15,
1887, in Sun Prairie,
Wisconsin.
• She is best known for
fantastic paintings of
flowers and landscapes
of the Southwest.

3. Where is Wisconsin ?

5. • She grew up on a
farm where she
helped her family
by cooking, and
growing
vegetables.

6. As a child, Georgia
was quiet and
independent.
She was one of six
children in the
O’Keeffe family.
Georgia was
fascinated with nature
and all of its colors
and beauty.

7. • When she was five,
O’Keeffe went to
school at a one-room
schoolhouse. She didn’t
like school but she did
enjoy the private art
lessons she took after
school. She knew she
wanted to be an artist.

8. • O’Keeffe’s family
moved to Virginia
where O’Keeffe
started high
school. Everyone
at her school
loved her
drawings.

9. • After high school,
O’Keeffe went to study
at the Art Institute of
Chicago and after one
year went New York.
• In 1912, she began
taking drawing classes
at the University of
Virginia. She learned to
paint in many different
styles before she
developed her own
way of painting.

10. Her first abstract art
When O’Keeffe had finished
school, She started to
experiment with abstract
art.
She even made some
abstract paintings based on
the things she saw in
nature, like Evening Star IV.

11. Georgia got married with
a photographer.
They bought a house next
to a lake.
O’Keeffe loved it there.
She used an old barn as
her studio and she
painted many paintings
that were inspired by her
natural surroundings

12. • In the 1930s, O’Keeffe took
some trips to New Mexico.
She loved it so much that
she eventually moved
there. She painted lots of
paintings of the mountains,
the desert, and the adobe
houses. She especially
loved to paint pictures of
animal skulls. Sometimes
she even painted desert
landscapes and skulls on
the same canvases.
• She continued to paint
until she lost her eyesight.
She died in 1986

14. FLOWERS
• https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-
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15. LANDSCAPES
• https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-
b&biw=1024&bih=632&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=TMhSXMKbIYerUqT4obgG&q=georgia+o%27keef
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16. SKULLS
• https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-
b&biw=1024&bih=632&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=CMhSXLixEraBur4P8IWA-
A0&q=georgia+o%27keeffe+skulls&oq=georgia+o%27keeffe+skulls&gs_l=img.3...60520.6718
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17. ABSTRACT

18. Building
• https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-
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MtHMgwe51I3oBQ&q=georgia+o%27keeffe+BUILDINGS&oq=georgia+o%27keeffe+BUILDING
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19. LET’S PAINT LIKE GEORGIA
• Draw the
following
landscape.
• Paint it with
watercolors.

20. FLOWERS
• Draw a living flower.
• Paint it with
watercolors.