{"id":1273,"date":"2011-05-16T07:17:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2011-05-16T07:17:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:17:41","slug":"zooming-in-painting-like-georgia-okeeffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/16\/zooming-in-painting-like-georgia-okeeffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Zooming In: painting like Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/34a-okeeffe-kids.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-740\" title=\"34a.O'keeffe kids\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/34a-okeeffe-kids.jpg?resize=590%2C393\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week I taught art at West Side school, a small elementary school just down the road from me.\u00a0 The blooming garden at the school stirred me to teach a lesson inspired by Georgia O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s flower series.\u00a0 I showed some of her paintings to my group (I had kindergarten first then a group of 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> graders) and gave them each a &#8220;zoom lens&#8221; (it was really just a one inch square cut in the middle of a 4 in square of cardboard but it sounds more exciting as a &#8220;zoom lens&#8221;).\u00a0 We headed out to the garden to zoom in on some flowers and each child brought a chosen flower back to the classroom.\u00a0 Most kids instinct is to draw something tiny in the middle of the page so I talked more about going off the page, getting a bees eye view.\u00a0 After a quick demo I set them loose with oil pastels and paint on canvas.\u00a0 The photo is a sampling from the day.<\/p>\n<p>This week I decided to follow my own lesson and see where it takes me, see what Georgia O\u2019Keeffe has to teach me about form and shape, color and contrast, representation and abstraction.\u00a0 Take a few minutes this week to stop and <em>see <\/em>the roses and see where it takes you.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the O\u2019Keeffe Museum website. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okeeffemuseum.org\/\">http:\/\/www.okeeffemuseum.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/34b-ok.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-739\" title=\"34b.OK\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/34b-ok.jpg?resize=206%2C245\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I taught art at West Side school, a small elementary school just down the road from me.\u00a0 The blooming garden at the school stirred me to teach a lesson inspired by Georgia O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s flower series.\u00a0 I showed some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,88],"tags":[354,384,756],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-inspiration","tag-flowers","tag-georgia-okeeffe","tag-teaching-art"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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