Artist Study: Georgia O'Keeffe

 After doing the more traditional Georgia O'Keeffe flower paintings we looked at one of her more surreal paintings Ladder to the Moon. The class loved hearing about O'Keeffe's life, specifically how she would often climb a ladder at her New Mexico home and spend the night under the stars.

For this project we started by watercoloring a night sky using wet-on-wet technique. While it dried we made our textured paper by watercoloring or drawing in crayon or pastel on various shades of brown paper. Then we cut out the shapes of the mountains and ladder and glued them on. The final step was adding the moon and stars in white pastel.