Spring Flowers

This project turned out better than I could have ever dreamed.  We started by taking a white or peach colored crayon or oil pastel to draw with.  Personally, I wouldn't use white because it's almost impossible to see and the peach turned out absolutely beautiful.  The hard part to this activity was that we weren't allowed to see what we were drawing.  Each of us stuck our utensil through a piece of paper that was about 3 X 6 inches which effectively blinded us  so we couldn't see what we were creating.  My flowers were supposed to be copies of the artwork of Georgia O'Keeffe, but they don't come very close to the original.  After completing our drawings we used very wet water colors to paint the entire page.  The idea was to ensure that there was no white remaining on our page.  The end effect was really pretty neat.

The integration which was presented in class was the study of the artist Georgia O'Keeffe.  Another idea with the flowers would be to have live flowers for the students to mimic.  This could be an ending project from a  science unit on parts of a flower.  It could also be changed so that you draw another type of object which gives limitless ideas for integration.  One that comes to mind is drawing musical instruments or tools that have changed history.