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GEORGIA O’KEEFFE – AGES 10 – ADULT | ONLINE EDITION

Step 1 - Introducing the Georgia O’Keeffe Slideshow Guide MOTIVATION BEGIN READING HERE

You usually “Meet the Masters” by looking at slides of their artwork and hearing about their lives. Today you will get to hear the real voice of our master artist, Georgia O’Keeffe! She will tell you all about her artwork and her life in her own words. This famous artist will share her feelings and ideas with you while you enjoy seeing her paintings. Before we hear directly from our artist, let me further introduce her. Today we will meet master artist Georgia O’Keeffe. What year did Georgia O’Keeffe die? (1986, POINT TO EASEL) How old was she when she died? (98 YEARS OLD)

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1. EARLY 1900s Let’s put ourselves in the period of Georgia’s lifetime. Her lifetime as an American spanned nearly one hundred years. Do you think she witnessed major changes in our nation? Imagine the contrast between riding in horse-drawn carriages as a child to watching men land on the moon! New York, where she lived, was no longer the city of gas-lit lamps but a city of skyscrapers with neon flashing lights. New ideas could also be seen in the arts. This was the world in which Georgia found herself. Do you think there were many women artists at that time? (NO) Do you think the male-dominated art profession intimidated O’Keeffe? (NO) She was a very independent woman for her time, and she fit in very well with her male artist friends. So being a woman artist in that era set Georgia O’Keeffe apart, but there was something else about her that was very different from other artists. Most artists struggle for many years to gain recognition. They study, enter many exhibits, only to struggle some more. Fame and success came easily and quickly to Georgia in a very different way. Let me tell you the story. Do you think O’Keeffe decided to become an artist when she was very young? (YES) By the age of twelve she knew without a doubt what she wanted to do with her life.

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2. PORTRAIT OF O’KEEFFE BY HILDA BELCHER She attended Columbia University when very few women were enrolled and later became a schoolteacher. But painting was her first love, and she devoted all her spare time to her art. This is a portrait of Georgia at age twenty when she was a college student. She lived near Columbia (NY) in a little $4 a week rented room in which there was a bed, a small dresser, and a table and a chair. She was unsure of her talent, so she sent a roll of her paintings to her best friend to get her opinion. She also sent strict instructions not to show the paintings to anyone else. Her friend ignored that request and showed them to Alfred Stieglitz, who owned a gallery. He thought her work was so good, he immediately displayed her paintings in his gallery. When Georgia found out about it, she stormed down there to demand that he take her paintings down. She told him he had no right to exhibit her work without her permission! They argued back and forth, and guess who won? Stieglitz got his way and the paintings remained. But Georgia, even though outraged, was on her way to fame. Alfred and Georgia were married a few years later. O’Keeffe was a very popular and famous artist for most of her life. She won every award possible, even the Civilian Medal of Honor, our nation’s highest award. As happens with fame, many people were curious about her life and her art. So she agreed to be interviewed. That interview was recorded, and you will hear parts of it today. She was in her nineties when this interview took place, so her voice is not always strong and clear. You will have to listen carefully to catch her words. Are you ready to hear all about Georgia O’Keeffe in her own voice and words?

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3. WHITE ROSE II

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“I see shapes. It’s as if my mind creates shapes that I don’t know about. I can’t say it any other way. I get this shape in my head, and sometimes I know what it comes from, and sometimes I don’t. And I think with myself that there are a few shapes I have repeated a few times, and I haven’t known I was repeating them until after I had done it.”

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What did O’Keeffe say her mind creates? (SHAPES) Besides just thinking up shapes, Georgia had the talent to beautifully turn those shapes into works of art. Are the shapes realistic or ABSTRACT? (ABSTRACT) An abstract work of art doesn’t look like a real thing. It invites us to imagine and experience a feeling.

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4. PINK TULIP Do you collect something? Georgia had two special collections. Artificial flowers were one of the things she collected. Why do you think an artist would collect artificial flowers? (TO DRAW AND PAINT) Let’s remember, though, were O’Keeffe’s paintings realistic or ABSTRACT? (ABSTRACT) So would her painting of this flower look just like it? (NO)

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5. RED CANNA I want you to pretend that you are a photographer that I hired to photograph a flower in a unique way using a zoom lens. (OPTIONAL: USE AN ARTIFICAL OR REAL FLOWER WITH LESSON) A powerful zoom lens would bring you closer and closer to the flower. As that happens, you of course see less and less of the flower as it is SCALED to a larger size. If you use your zoom lens, what would you see of the flower through your camera lens? (PETALS, VEINS, CENTER, STEM) Georgia looked at her collection of artificial flowers as if she had a zoom lens as part of her eyes. She SCALED UP the flowers when she painted. Did the last few pictures remind you of flowers at all? Let’s go back and take another look. Listen to the reasons Georgia gives for painting the flowers so big.

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“There was a collection of paintings in New York that I would see every once in a while, and they had a new painting, but it was a floral painting, about 20 x 16 maybe. But the flower was beautifully painted, and I thought, now if I would paint that flower, just that flower, the size it is -- no one would ever look at it. But if I enjoy the flower, and I would paint the flower, I will paint it big, so they will have to look at it.”

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Why did she scale up the flowers? (SO PEOPLE WOULD NOTICE THEM) Do you think her plan worked? (YES) She became very famous for her flower paintings.

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3. WHITE ROSE II The title of this painting is White Rose II. Is it scaled up? (YES) Look carefully and notice that the rose seems to have been caught in various stages of its growth, as though it were unfolding before our eyes. Do you feel like you’re viewing the beginning or the end of this growth? Why? (COLOR, SHAPE)

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6. BLUE AND GREEN MUSIC Besides the shapes in this painting, what else catches your attention? (COLOR) Look carefully. Do you see more than one color of blue in this painting? Do you see several colors of green too? We call those different colors VALUES. Values of a color can go from very light to very dark. This painting is not a scaled up flower. I will tell you the story of what inspired Georgia to paint this. While she was attending Columbia University, she was walking down the hall one day and heard music coming from a classroom. Being curious she opened the door and went in. The students were being asked to make a drawing from what they heard. So Georgia sat down and made a drawing too. Then the teacher played a very different kind of music for another quick drawing. This gave O’Keeffe an idea that continued to interest her -- the idea that music could be translated into something for the eye. The title of this is Blue and Green Music. What kind of music do you hear when you look at it? (RESPONSES WILL VARY) - Click Next To Change Slide 7. SHADE AND TINT Let’s find out how O’Keeffe created all those values of blue and green that we saw. Do you know what O’Keeffe added to a color to make it darker? (BLACK) Black added to a color makes a SHADE of that color. What would you add to make it lighter? (WHITE) White added to a color makes a TINT of that color. Now I want you to create a picture in your mind of brown hills. O’Keeffe painted hills with so many values of brown that you can’t even count them, and the result is a rich, interesting painting that captures the beauty of nature. See if her painting is anything like what you pictured in your mind. - Click Next To Change Slide 8. THE MOUNTAIN, NEW MEXICO Let’s experiment with shades and tints so that you really understand this art concept. I’m going to point to a value in this painting, and you tell me if it is a shade or a tint. (POINT TO SEVERAL DIFFERENT VALUES) Georgia O’Keeffe was born and lived in the United States for her entire life. She lived in New York for many years, but she preferred another part of America. Her favorite place was a world completely different from New York, and that’s where she painted these beautiful hills. Let’s look at another view of those hills she loved as she tells you all about this place. - Click Next To Change Slide

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9. BLACK CROSS, NEW MEXICO

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“When I got to New Mexico, that was mine. As soon as I saw it, that was my country. I’d never seen anything like it before, but it fitted to me exactly. It’s something that’s in the air. The sky is different; the stars are different. The wind is different. I shouldn’t say too much about this, because other people might get interested, and I don’t want them interested.”

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These hills were part of the landscape that she loved to visit and paint when she left her home in New York. She would hike all over the desert to find vistas to paint and would set up her easel and stay for as long as the daylight held. What part of the United States did she say it is? (NEW MEXICO) This painting is titled Black Cross, New Mexico. If you have ever visited that part of the country, you know that deserts and mountains make up the landscape. O’Keeffe fell in love with that landscape the first time she visited. She described it as a place with “terrible winds and a wonderful emptiness.” What else did she enjoy? (STARS, SKY, WIND) Can you think why she liked that emptiness? In New York she was bothered by having so many people around and found it hard to devote herself to her art. But in New Mexico she found that peace and quiet, and she blossomed as an artist -- just like the flowers she painted! Let’s look at the colors in this dramatic painting. What creates contrast? (BLACK CROSS, SIZE OF CROSS, COLORS OF HILLS) Notice how each hill has a shade and tint of its own. Also, notice how each hill gets darker on its outer edge and seems to glow from within. What color is the sky? (WHITE) Blue is not used in the sky but is painted in the hills, making the sky seem brighter and lighter. Georgia visited New Mexico in the summer. What would the weather be like in that part of the country then? (VERY HOT) But she didn’t let that stop her from hiking and painting. She would drive her car across the wide-open deserts where only Native Americans had been before. To stay out of the scorching desert sun, she found the only shade available, under her car. So after eating her lunch, she would climb under the car. She said it wasn’t a very pleasant place to be, but it was better than nothing! Remember I told you Georgia liked to collect things. Do you remember what she collected? (ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS) She had another collection, a very unusual one. I bet you have never heard of this collection before! Let me show you.

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10. PELVIS WITH SHADOWS AND THE MOON What did she collect on the dry deserts of New Mexico? (BONES) When Georgia had to return to New York, she wanted to take something with her to remind her of the place she loved. And this is what she chose! As she hiked over the deserts and hills, she would

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collect dried, bleached bones. It was in her second summer in New Mexico that she began to notice the bones of the desert. When she came across those bleached bones, polished by wind and sand, she was fascinated. She spoke of them as her “treasures.” Do we usually associates bones with death? (YES) Not Georgia! She saw the beautiful shapes and thought the bones were very lovely! Look at this bone as Georgia did, noticing the shapes created against the blue sky. Is it evident that she was most interested in the holes in the bones and what she saw through them? Georgia said she was the sort of child who ate around the raisin on the cookie and ate around the hole in the doughnut, saving either the raisin or the hole for the last and best. So probably, not having changed much when she started painting the bones, she was most interested in the holes in the bones. She thought bones were most wonderful against the blue of the sky. Do you think these bone shapes are lovely, like Georgia did?

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11. RED, WHITE, AND BLUE With this painting she tried to show something not related to bones at all. Let’s see if you can guess what it was. Here is your clue. Look at the background colors. (RED, WHITE, BLUE) With what do we usually associate the colors red, white, and blue? (AMERICAN FLAG) O’Keeffe said she wanted this to be strictly an American painting. She was very proud of her country. It was certainly a unique way to show patriotism, wasn’t it? She also knew cattle were important to America, and just for fun, she made it red, white, and blue -- a new kind of flag almost. It always amused her when people didn’t understand.

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12. DEER’S SKULL WITH PEDERNAL Sometimes Georgia combined the mountains she loved with her bone paintings. This background shows her favorite mountain called the Pedernal. Is it a flat-topped mountain -- a mesa? (YES) She enjoyed painting it over and over again, sometimes with her special bones as you see here. After hearing her voice, would you like to see a photograph of Georgia O’Keeffe? She was married to a very famous photographer, and he took hundreds of pictures of her over a thirty-year period. Do you think she enjoyed posing for him? Do you think she posed painting a flower, a landscape, or bones? Let’s find out.

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13. PHOTO OF ARTIST BY ALFRED STIEGLITZ In Georgia’s words, posing for her husband drove her crazy! The cameras at that time required you to hold still for three to four minutes for each photo. Have you ever experienced being told to hold perfectly still, only to develop an itch and an uncontrollable desire to scratch it? That’s what happened to Georgia while posing for Stieglitz. She said in those endless three or four minutes she would feel more itchy places than you could possibly imagine. It also interrupted her painting time, and she guarded that time for herself. What is Georgia painting in this photo? (FLOWERS) Do you think it will be just that size? (NO, LARGER) - Click Next To Change Slide 14. PATTERN OF LEAVES How is this painting different? (DARK COLORS, LEAVES NOT FLOWERS) Georgia always denied that any of her paintings related to her personal life in any way. But let’s look at this painting of leaves in relation to what was happening in her life at that time. She was having many disagreements with Stieglitz over her art and in personal matters also. Their marriage was not as strong as it once had been, and Georgia was feeling the tension. Alfred was a great deal older than Georgia, and his health was beginning to fail. What can you pick out in this painting that would reflect what was happening in her life? (LEAVES SIGNIFY DECAY, AFFECT OF TIME, DETERIORATING MARRIAGE)

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15. O’KEEFFE GAME Now it’s time to review all you’ve learned about Georgia O’Keeffe in a fun way. We are going to play a rhythm game. Follow me. (HIT LAP, CLAP HANDS TOGETHER, SNAP FINGERS IN A SLOW RHYTHM, PAUSING AFTER SNAP. CONTINUE TO REPEAT RHYTHM UNTIL CHILD(REN) CAN FOLLOW EASILY.) Please stop now. You know the rhythm now, so we will add words that match. We only say a word when we snap our fingers, no other time. I will say my word on a snap. Then you say the first word on the list on the next snap. Your word will match mine. Remember, Georgia saw shapes in her mind. Let’s practice a few times. (START RHYTHM. ON SNAP, INSTRUCTOR SAYS “SHAPES.” ON NEXT SNAP, CHILD(REN) SAYS “MIND.” REPEAT SAME EXAMPLE UNTIL CONCEPT IS GRASPED.) You are ready. Let’s continue down the list of matching words in order. Pay attention to the matches, because next time the list will be taken away, and you will have to remember the correct matching word.

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INSTRUCTOR’S WORD LIST

1. Shapes 2. Hills 3. Red, White, Blue 4. Shade 5. Tint 6. Unrealistic 7. Bones 8. Light and Dark 9. Photographer 10. Scale

STUDENT’S WORD LIST (ON SCREEN) 1. Mind 2. New Mexico 3. American 4. Black 5. White 6. Abstract 7. Collection 8. Value 9. Husband 10. Size

Very well done! Study the list for a few seconds, because I’m going to take it away. We will play our rhythm game again with you matching my words from memory.

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(START RHYTHM, REPEAT LIST FROM TOP. CHILD(REN) RESPONDS FROM MEMORY.)

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Step 2 - Learning From: Georgia O’Keeffe Color Values To balance the light and dark areas (values) of her paintings, O’Keeffe used tints and shades. The values in the drawings on the right have been left out. Use tints and shades to put them back.

Shade Method Tint Method

Color + black = shade Color + white = tint

Use only one color.

Use heavy pressure to let the white show through for the light values. Color over the lightest values with white.

Color over darkest values gently with black.

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Scale Georgia O’Keeffe scaled up small flowers to very large sizes. To enlarge or scale up a drawing: Notice where lines hit edges on the small square, and mark them on the large square. Study the curve of the lines between the points before copying them. Copy each drawing, but scale it up to fit in the bigger box.

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Texture and Color Values 1. Fill this rounded shape with straight pencil strokes. 2. Fill this rounded shape with rounded pencil strokes. Which looks more round, the first circle or the second circle? _____________________

1 . Color the leaf with strokes going in different directions.

2. Color this leaf with strokes following the direction of growth out of the stem.

Which looks more realistic? Leaf 1 or leaf 2? ___________________________________

View Finder - Save this for your project.

Just as photographers look through the camera to “frame” a picture, artists sometimes use a view finder to find the best view to paint or draw. This will be your view finder for your art project.

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The last few pages of this section contain the Art Activity for Georgia O’Keeffe. This step-by-step outline will be a guide for instructing your child(ren) through the activity. The parent/instructor should review all steps necessary to complete this project before beginning any work. Cut out the Artist Profile Slip below and attach it to the back of the completed art project. Georgia O’Keeffe (oh-KEEF) - American 1887–1986 Georgia O’Keeffe was a famous female American artist. Her modern desert and botanical paintings inspired our young artists as they painted in her style. Her love of the American Southwest was reflected in her work. ART ACTIVITY EMPHASIS: Color Values MEDIA: Black Crayons Drawing / Paint Crayons Georgia O’Keeffe (oh-KEEF) - American 1887–1986 Georgia O’Keeffe was a famous female American artist. Her modern desert and botanical paintings inspired our young artists as they painted in her style. Her love of the American Southwest was reflected in her work. ART ACTIVITY EMPHASIS: Color Values MEDIA: Black Crayons Drawing / Paint Crayons

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Step 3 - Working With: Art Activity Instructions ARTIST Georgia O’Keeffe (oh-KEEF) (1887-1986) American ART ELEMENTS Color value MEDIA Watercolor and crayon TECHNIQUE Scaled up drawing, crayon shade, watercolor tint

EMPHASIS Color Value VOCABULARY Wash, tint, shade, color value VISUAL Print: Red Canna SUGGESTED MUSIC Music from the

MATERIALS FOR INSTRUCTOR AND CHILDREN One 12” X 12” white construction paper One 12” X 18” sheet of newsprint Paper towel Artist profile slip One set of small botanical prints Box of Payons (watercolor crayons) Watercolor paintbrush Water cup

Black crayon Masking tape (one 2” piece per student) Water pitcher (for instructor only) Scissors One view finder from last page of Learning Packet Pencil Glue

PREPARATION Construct an example to become familiar with the procedure. Place the O’Keeffe print and demonstration papers where they can be easily seen. Arrange materials nearby. SET-UP [ 5 minutes ] Distribute the following materials to each child:

SUPPLIES: Brush, Payons, black crayon, botanical prints, masking tape (2” piece each). Distribute water cups and water after students have finished using Payons. PAPER: White paper, newsprint, paper towel, and artist profile slip

ORIENTATION [ 2 minutes ] What is special about Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings? (COLORS, SHAPES, BONES, AMERICAN LANDSCAPES, LARGE FLOWERS) Today you will magnify or scale up and paint a leaf or a flower just as Georgia O’Keeffe would have. You will show the TINT and SHADE of each color you use. You colored tints and shades with crayons in your Learning Packets. You enlarged leaf and flower shapes. Then you learned how to use the direction of

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your strokes to make something look realistic. Now you are ready to use what you’ve learned! Let’s get organized so we can begin! DEMONSTRATION AND ACTIVITY ORGANIZE YOUR WORK AREA [ 2 minutes ] 1. Place your newsprint horizontally (DEMONSTRATE) on your workspace, with your white paper and Learning Packet on top. 2. Put your small flower print beside your white paper. 3. Open your Payons and place them on a newsprint corner. 4. Place your scissors, pencil and artist profile slip at the top corner of your workspace. THE VIEW FINDER [ 5 minutes ] In order to zoom in on the part of the flower you want to enlarge or scale up, you will need a view finder – to help you frame your picture – or to find a view for your picture. This is how to make one: 1. Turn to the last page of your Learning Packet. 2. Follow the dotted line to cut out the view finder. Cut very slowly. It is important to stay on the dotted line so that your view finder will be perfectly square. 3. Place your view finder over the flower print. Move it around until you see an arrangement that interests you. Try to include some white space in the arrangement. Look for a balance of light and dark areas. When you are happy with it, tear your piece of masking tape in half and tape the view finder in place on the print (in two places).

(Have the students find their views; check papers.)

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THE DRAWING [ 10 minutes ] Draw your “view” on your white paper. Make it large enough to fill the paper: You are enlarging the “view” from 1” x 1” to 12” x 12”.

1. Notice where lines hit edges on the view finder and mark them on your large paper. If a line hits an edge of the view finder in the middle (demonstrate with a dot) it will also hit the edge of the white paper in the middle (mark with a dot). 2. Then study the curve of the lines between the points you have marked, and LIGHTLY sketch those lines on your paper. 3. For lines not touching an edge; estimate how far they are from lines or points you have drawn. THE SHADING [ 15 minutes ] 1. Color each section of the drawing with different color Payons. Contrast light and dark sections. Encourage the students to leave some white spaces. 2. Look for the darkest areas of the picture. Shade them with the black crayon. Keep your shading strokes going in the direction of the growth of the leaf or petal on which you are working. These strokes usually go from the stem toward the tips of the leaves and petals. 3. Press hard where it is very dark and ease up on the lighter areas to show the many values of each area, creating tints and shades. 4. Go over all outlines with a black crayon. Press hard to create the wax “dam” to keep Payon colors from running together when we add the water. Have students draw, color, and shade with crayons for at least 25 minutes. Play the music. PAINT ONE SECTION AT A TIME [ 5 minutes ] (Stop the work for this demonstration.) Have the students pack up and close the Payons before they begin “painting” with the water. You will add water to the flower in the sections that are divided by your black lines. Watch, so you’ll know how: 1. Dip the brush into the water and tap the bristles gently on the rim of the cup, keeping the tip pointed. 2. Hold the brush the way an artist does; toward the end of the handle, with your arm up, parallel to the desk. When you make a stroke, use a sweeping motion.

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3. As you add water, the crayons turn into paint. The fewer strokes you use the fresher and brighter the color will be. Only use enough water to make the crayon colors turn to paint – the paper should not be saturated or have puddles. 4. Keep each color separate by cleaning your brush with each color change. Do not go from one section to another, but paint each separately. Begin with lightest colors first. CLEAN YOUR BRUSH! Rinse your brush in the water and dry it gently to a point on the paper towel. MOUNTING THE ARTIST PROFILE SLIP [ 1 minute ] (Profile slips for each artist are provided. They give a brief description of the artist, the technique, and the media used in the art activity. They should be mounted to the back of each art project after it is completed.) 1. Write your name on the front of the artist profile slip. 2. Using glue, mount the profile slip on the back of your artwork. 3. Encourage students to discuss their artwork at home using this artist slip of information.

CONCLUSION Why did Georgia O’Keeffe paint her flowers so large? (SO PEOPLE WOULD NOTICE HER PAINTINGS) As I look at your beautiful creations, I think she was right. I would certainly notice your paintings! Your excellent and dramatic colors along with the views you chose would really please Georgia O’Keeffe. GUIDANCE Watch the clock! This project takes a lot of time, so keep demonstration times to a minimum!

THIS CONCLUDES THE GEORGIA O’KEEFFE UNIT.