Multi-media Careful Coloring: Georgia O’Keefe Flowers
In a world that was beginning to look to larger and more monumental forms of human expression like skyscrapers and highways, Georgia O’Keefe looked to the small, beautiful things for inspiration. She took those small flowers on the side of the highway and enlarged them into monumental paintings.
Flowers come in many different forms, but most of them are made up of petals that radiate out from a central stem. Most of them are easiest try draw starting from the center. Here are a variety of flowers to inspire your drawing. Feel free to search for a flower you like better, but don’t spend too much time searching when you could be drawing.
Follow along with Mr. Deron, but following these basic steps:
Think of a flower. Reproduce the shapes that make up the flower (usually circular in the middle, petals are often like elongated “U” or “V” shapes) using crayon. Draw only the contours (edges) of the shapes, use one color mainly (but use more, if you want) and press firmly. It’s usually easiest to start in the center and work to the outermost petals. Flower should take up the whole page. Petals can even go off the page.
Divide those bigger shapes into the smaller shapes that make up the flower’s more detailed features. These are still contours only. Add grooves into the petals, pollen in the center. Don’t forget to press firmly.
Once all of the contours have been drawn in with crayon, use crayons, markers and colored pencils to color in the contour drawing. Take care to color carefully around the crayon. Use colors that are different from the crayon colors or they will not show up. Color the whole thing.