7th grade students were inspired by artist Georgia O'keeffe for this next project. O'keefe was an artist who was inspired by her surroundings, whether it was the dry bones and dessert landscapes of the west, or the city scenes of New York during the roaring twenties. Living in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in the fall is breathtaking and watching the leaves change is always lovely. That being said, we allowed leaves to the be the inspiration for this next project. Students focused on abstracting the familiar object so that the viewer might grow to view it in a new light. We started out with a contour line drawing of a leaf, and then focused on areas that had the most interesting lines and movement to enlarge to our final paper. Non local color was adding using chalk pastel.