After looking at several pictures of Georgia O’Keefe’s artwork students had a directed drawing lesson to create their own poppies in pencil. They then used china markers to outline these poppies. Painting came next. When the pieces were dry the next day they were re-outlined, cut out, and glued onto green construction paper.
Amongst their individual poppies are the Indigenous poppies created by Robin Roberts, a Tsimshian/Haida artist, and coloured by the students.
As we have been discussing since the beginning of the school year, each poppy is unique unto itself just as each artist is unique unto themselves. Here they are individually:
