O’Keefe + Warhol = “O’Keearhol”

What do you get when you mash together the subject matter of Georgia O’Keefe with the style of Andy Warhol? Let’s find out!

Info:

Georgia O’Keefe lived from 1887 – 1986.  She taught elementary school for a few years between high school and the beginning of her art career.  She loved painting colorful, almost abstract pictures of flowers and landscapes inspired by living in Texas, and New Mexico.

Andy Warhol lived from 1928 – 1987.  He started out creating advertisements, and later became famous for his colorful repeating prints of famous American products and movie stars.  He helped pioneer the Pop Art movement and also made some strange movies.

Age: 5+          Topic: art history          Duration: 1 hour          Supervision: low

Materials:

• 12” x 12” drawing paper
• 6” x 6” piece of Styrofoam tray
• scissors
• pencil
• acrylic paints
• paintbrushes
• black felt-tip marker OR Sharpie

Step 1: Using a sharp pencil, draw a picture that takes up the entire Styrofoam sheet.  Georgia O’Keefe liked to draw large flowers, cow skulls, and Southwestern landscapes, so try to pick one of those things.

Step 2: Cut off or mash down the sections of the tray that you don’t want to print.  (The flat end of a marker is a good mashing tool.)

Step 3: Print your picture onto the square of drawing paper 4 different times, making sure to use a different color combination for each print.  If you use a wet paintbrush to spread the paint quickly onto the Styrofoam, it stays wet longer and prints better.  Let the paint dry.

Step 4: Outline your prints in black marker, and color in some of the white spaces.  Now you have a Georgia O’Keefe picture that looks like an Andy Warhol print.

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