When it comes to floral painting and smooth curvy lines, Georgia O’Keeffe’s oil paintings attract me most. Flowers is the motif that she always returns to throughout her life.

By magnifying her subject, I found out that she emphasised shape and colour and brought attention to the tiny details within the flower.

Many claim that the images which Gegorgia O’Keeffe created when painting flowers, which was highly sexual, and many went as far as to say it was an erotic art form, even Alfred Stieglitz (her husband) gendered them in very public terms and consider there are female body parts in these flowers. But O’Keeffe rejected that theory consistently. In an attempt to move the attention of her critic’s away from their Freudian interpretations of her work, she began to paint in a more representational style. But this is not relevant to my current focus, so this will not be discussed much now.

I wanted to learn from her painting style and paint smooth lines with soft colour transitions. With watercolour, I did an attempt of emulate O’Keeffe’s style with painting a flower I had seen in kew garden. I was generally happy with the painting, although the moisture control caused colours in the leaf parts blurred into each other during the painting process.