Fifth grade Georgia Okeeffe clay flowers

5th grade artists are busy studying the art and life of Georgia Okeeffe. We read a book about her and noticed how she really gets up close in her colorful pictures of flowers. We sketched flowers and designed them as zentangles! 

Next we turned 2D sketches into 3D clay projects!

Learning Goals:

I can identify the art of Georgia Okeeffe

I can describe her art and some facts about her life

I can use form to create a clay flower 

I can identify a zentangle

Fifth-grade Georgia O'Keeffe Zentangles with Value!

Fifth graders learned about the life and art of Georgia O'Keeffe. They learned about how she liked to zoom up close on her subjects. She loved flowers, skulls and sometimes architecture and mindscapes. We combined her zoomed up flowers with the new art of zentangles! Zentangles are basically doodles with tons and tons of patterns! Finally, we learned how to mix up tints and shades of a single color and used them in our background.

Lesson Objectives:

I can learn about the life and art of Georgia O'Keeffe

I can create detailed patterned zentangles

I can mix tints and shades to create value in my art.