Georgia O Keeffe: Banana Flower

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For this assignment I’ve picked Georgia O’Keeffe “Banana Flower” to utilize. The artist Georgia O’Keeffe used charcoal and black chalk for this drawing. She uses a style named metal point in the drawing which is a mode of drawing that is with a descriptive representation of a thing. It is seen through outline or contour drawing which with charcoal makes it much easier to give a sense of volumetric to the drawing. They was using natural chalk which derived from red ocher hematite, white soapstone, and black carbonaceous shale. They were fitted into holders and shaved to a point for drawing. The charcoal were made into charcoal sticks which were burnt wood that comes from hardwood especially vines. They could be either hard or soft, sharpened

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