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:

                                                        

Second Grade Lego Portrait

   In Second Grade, we finished discussing Portrait Artwork and viewing various types of Portraiture.  We took our learned information and applied it to our own Portrait Artwork.  We created a Portrait drawing of a Lego Person.  It could be any Lego person the Artist desired. 

   Stencils were made available if students chose to use one, the Lego outline can be challenging and frustrating for some kiddos to create.  While others chose to challenge themselves and create their Lego outline free-hand. 

   We used crayons to color in our Lego people, some chose to color the background while others left it blank.  Leaving the emphasis on their Lego person.