Cubist Portraits

 Fifth graders studied Pablo Picasso's Cubist portraits.  To create his portraits, Mr. Picasso took two different views of a face and combined them into one image.  Fifth graders created three portrait collages by combining a front view of a face and a profile.  They also learned about complimentary colors, which are across from each other on the color wheel.  Each pair of complimentary colors has one primary and one secondary color.  Facial features we added using scraps of paper and details were done with black tempera paint. The results were colorful and imaginative!

Ornament Collages

Part of being an artist is practicing the skills needed to create a variety of art.  Third and fourth graders exercised their cutting skills by creating a paper collage that was turned into an ornament.  The project started by learning how to make a circle using a compass.  Students then chose a variety of cut paper lines (some thin, some thick) to make a collage on their circle.  Students were asked to use at least 10 lines in their collage and five had to be changed in some way by cutting.  After the glue dried, we got out our new metallic craypas (oil pastel) to add glitz and glamor to our collages.  Aren't they gorgeous???

Snowflakes falling...

Where is the snow??  It's almost Christmas!  Kindergarten used white paint and sponge brushes to create snow on their collage.  The collage was made by cutting squares diagonally to create triangles for trees and rooftops.  Scraps were used to add chimneys, doors and windows.

Picasso Style Portraits

 

Pablo Picasso was a Cubist painter.  Cubism is an art style where artists take different views of the same object and combine them in one piece of artwork.  For example, in portraits, Pablo Picasso would combine a front view of a face with a profile.  Second graders looked carefully at Picasso's Cubist portraits before creating their Cubist portrait collages.  The project started out as monster portraits but some students were inspired by the alien stories they wrote in the classroom and turned their collages into aliens!  Background images were made with craypas.

Collage Portraits

Second graders learned the placement of facial features and created portrait collages. The finished work was sent home as part of the Original Artworks fundraiser for the PTA.