Georgia O'Keeffe

One of the last art projects we completed this year was inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe.  I had the students make a large flower drawing on paper.  The flowers needed to be larger than the page, so that not all of the petals were showing.  Next, I mixed up a fun little concoction.  I poured some black acrylic paint inside 5 half empty glue bottles.  We shook up the bottles to create black glue.  Students traced their pencil lines with the black glue.  Once dried, we headed outdoors to the sidewalk and watercolored.  I'm glad we went out there because we had a couple of spills!  I love the bright colors and was really impressed with how they turned out.  You could add any color of acrylic paint to the glue bottles.  It does take a little bit of muscle to shake, never use a bottle of glue that is nearly full!  The moms really liked these and we got several compliments when they were hanging up.  Remind students that there should be NO white showing when they watercolor. The whole paper should be painted.