Georgia O'Keefe

In this project, we were required to chose a artist that we found interesting and study their work and techniques of achieving that specific style. I chose to study Georgia O'Keefe. O'Keefe's palette includes bright colors, which I love, and the elegance in her brush stroke was something that I was inspired by and stood out to me compared to other artists. At first in the process,I used a variety of pictures taken of the still life and 'collaged' them together and created the 'perfect' still life. I then used the picture and enlarged it big enough to cover my 18x24 canvas and half way through tracing my picture, I was then introduced to the idea that I could give my background a color instead of tracing images on a bare canvas. I was very excited and open to this idea and it also assisted in my process along the way because it help me see objects and was able to let me see how to paint light in a different manner. I chose to use a sky blue as my background.






Further along in my piece it was easier for me to apply colors and it took me a while to become dramatic with the differences between light and dark. This piece was definitely one that led me to grow in my experiences as a painter and led me to see things in a much different way than I had previously seen in my other pieces. As you can see in my process pictures below, I had to really give in and make it dramatic between light and dark.






In this piece I feel like I really made lots of development from the beginning, the between and the end. I am very happy with my end result of this piece. I feel like that I gained a better knowledge in painting light and the colored background really help me see it in a different way.