In this lesson, students created an abstract composition of flowers on the "rough" side of a square cut piece of poster board. Students designed flowers using black sharpe markers. I encouraged students to build their flowers from an aerial view (as if looking down over a big field from an airplane). I also encouraged them to include small, medium, and large sized flowers and to not be afraid of overlapping petals. To finish their composition, students painted in their flowers with watercolor paints. The end results were bright and vivid and reminded me of some Georgia O'Keefe flower paintings or Impressionist paintings of flowers like those done by art history legends such as Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh!
