Kindergarten Cubist Heart

     In Kindergarten, we looked at the artwork of Pablo Picasso the famous cubist artist.  We discussed how in his artwork, the viewer can see many different shapes.  We also discussed value and how artists use it within their artwork to create light and shadow.  Students created a drawing of a heart and then divided it up to create a cubist heart, so their goal was to have many shapes inside but not too small.

     Inside of the shapes, the students used crayons of any color to create value.  The goal for the value was to go from dark to light.  They really enjoyed seeing that they could create a darker value with the crayon as well as a lighter value.  The end result looks great!

Fifth Grade Cubist Instruments

Fifth grade finished their project discussing value scales and Cubism and the artist Pablo Picasso.  We first sketched a musical instrument, inspired by many of Picasso's instrument paintings.  The students then created a stencil they would use to help break up their drawing into many different shapes and sizes.

After creating their drawings, students traced their stencil all over their artwork providing the shapes for the values.  Two colors were selected to use for the background and their drawing's subject (the instrument).