First Grade Picasso Portraits

In first grade we are just finishing discussing Pablo Picasso and how he created his artwork using cubism.  We viewed as a group a lot of Picasso's paintings and discussed how he used shapes within each image to help create the subject.

We also reviewed the warm and cool colors, which all of my groups this year ROCKED! All the hard work and focus in Kindergarten is really paying off with their recall.

We took the idea of Picasso's paintings and how they utilized cubism to create our own portraits.  Within each portrait, students were asked to divide the space into shapes as well as the background.  We used crayons to color in and a felt tip marker for outlining when we finished coloring.  Here are some of our final products:

                                                        

Fourth Grade Picasso Portrait

   In fourth grade, we looked at the many portraits of Pablo Picasso and discussed his technique used to create them.  We also discussed personal symbols that sometimes artists put in to portraits to give a hint of themselves being in the image. 

    Students created an outline of a head, they were instructed to create an organic shape so both sides were not equal.  They then drew a line down the center and created a face, different on each side.  The students then filled in their portrait with watercolor pencils and painted over with a wet brush so the colors blended together.  Once dry, the portraits were outlined with sharpie so the pencil could be seen through the paint.  Students also added symbols into their artwork that represented themselves as an individual.