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Youth Art Month Projects and Exhibits 2007 |
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Benjamin Davis' Study of Vincent Van Gogh and the Element of Art - COLOR - Warm & Cool Interpretations of Sunflowers and Starry Night |
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Kindergarten and First Grade Interpretations of Sunflowers |
Students looked and drew from Van Gogh's Sunflowers using simple lines and circles. After drawing the basic composition the students added detail and chose which color scheme, warm or cool, they wanted for their picture. |
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2nd Grade Interpretations of Starry Night |
Students discussed what they thought and felt was going on in Starry Night - the swirling of the wind, the calm city below, the dark cypress tree, and the cool night air. They then drew their interpretation by using simple lines and shapes and following the clues given in his painting. |
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Leon Sheffield's Study of Georgia O'Keeffe and Drawing Techniques, Abstraction, Paper Sculpture and Pastels |
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3rd Grade Three-Dimensional Flowers |
Students discussed how O'Keeffe's flowers were painted on a huge scale, as if the size of the viewer became the size of an insect. Their project was to create a three-dimensional flower by building up oil pastel decorated paper petals, pistols, stamens, and leaves. |
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4th & 5th Grade O'Keeffe Style Flowers |
Students learned through observation that Georgia O'Keeffe used her unique style of experimenting with the size to create her beautiful flowers. Using her paintings and pictures from nature, students learned to focus in on a segment of a flower, enlarge it using a grid, and carefully draw and color what they see. |
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