Watercolor
Watercolor paint is a water-based art medium made with pigment and a water-soluble binder. It is known for transparent color that settles into absorbent paper.
Painter
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe was an American modernist known for close-up flowers, New Mexico landscapes, bones, architecture, and simplified natural forms.
Related: Edward Hopper · Andrew Wyeth
Georgia O'Keeffe quick facts
Review key details about Georgia O'Keeffe's life, career, American modernist practice, major periods, and the places and subjects that shaped her work.
| Born | November 15, 1887 · Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, U.S. |
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| Died | March 6, 1986 · Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Movement | American modernism |
| Paint media | Watercolor · Oil paint |
| Common subjects | Flowers, desert landscapes, bones, buildings, clouds, and abstracted natural forms |
| Notable works | Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, Black Iris, Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills, and Sky Above Clouds IV |
Sources: The Met: A Storm, The Met: Seated Nude XI, and The Met: East River from the Shelton Hotel.
Paint types used
See the paint types documented in O'Keeffe's work, with links to PaintZeal references explaining each medium's properties, uses, and working characteristics.
Oil Paint
Oil paint is a slow-drying paint made with pigment and a drying oil binder. It is widely used for artwork because it blends smoothly and develops rich color.
Surface types used
See the surface types documented in O'Keeffe's work, with links to PaintZeal references explaining how each support behaves and is prepared for painting.
Paper
Paper is an absorbent sheet material made primarily from cellulose fibers. Its weight, sizing, surface texture, and wet strength determine how much paint it can accept before buckling, pilling, bleeding, or warping.
Canvas
Canvas is a woven fabric support used for paintings, banners, bags, décor, and other projects. Artist canvas may be raw, sized, acrylic-primed, oil-primed, or factory-coated, and each condition changes how paint absorbs and bonds.