How Do You Make Georgia Okeefe Pastel Flowers?
Make beautiful close up flower art in the style of Georgia O’Keefe. Colorful pastels on colored paper create soft muted effects much like O’Keefe’s close up flower art. This project is suitable for early elementary aged kids to adults. Georgia O’Keefe’s famous paintings of flowers featured extreme close up views with great detail of color. Her use of color and contour created abstract views of nature. To begin your O’Keefe project, choose a flower photo or flower that appeals to you in color, shape and line. Decide on a background color for your pastel flower drawing. Using colored paper with pastels creates a great variety of color tone. Begin your Georgia O’Keefe style flower art by practicing with the chalk pastels on scrap paper if you have not used them before. Chalk pastels offer a wonderful effect but differ greatly from either chalk, a much harder substance, or oil pastels, a crayon like substance. Chalk pastels require very little pressure when applying and tend to create a gr
