More Picasso Portraits

 My fifth and sixth graders also created Picasso-style portraits. I've done similar lessons before, but I used the directions from Deep Space Sparkle this time. I was really happy with these results.

 I gave students the option of outlining in paint or oil pastels and everyone chose pastel. I will say it is a bit harder to get fifth graders to make cubist portraits than it was for first graders. Once the kids were willing to loosen up a bit, the paintings turned out fabulously!

Picasso's Blue Rose

This was another great lesson from another blogger, Phyl from There's A Dragon in my Art Room. This was such a fun study of Picasso's Blue and Rose periods, while teaching the students about monochromatic color schemes.

My students were a bit thrown with not having skin tones. "How do we make brown?" I reminded them that we were making monochromatic paintings. Some of the students didn't seem to know how to approach painting the face with that restriction.

Our last day, we used various oil pastels in the blue or red range, along with black and white to add details. This really helped a lot of students' work.

I was very happy with the results of these paintings. Thanks again, Phyl for another great lesson!

First Grade Picasso Portraits

Last month most of my classes studied the art of Pablo Picasso. Lots of talk and laughter about cubism. I think the results were pretty fabulous, though.

These Cubist portraits are by my first graders. So colorful and fun! This lesson was adapted from Mary Making.

We started by drawing in crayons a fairly simplified Cubist version, then painted with temperate. Just to add a bit more definition, we outlined with black oil pastel.