Saturday, November 14, 2015

More Picasso Fractured Faces for Winter

After we did our Frankenstein lesson (see here) I started thinking of other options for this lesson. I did a quick Google search for Picasso Snowmen and found some full body examples, but no portraits. Thinking that kids would have fun with that variation I gave it a try. 

Instead of cutting out the face, I tried painting the 2 halves, shading for a bit of dimension. The background is pastel in the complementary color to the blue in the face. The pastels could be left like this, or smoothed over with a bit of paper towel for a blended look.


All the details were drawn on a separate piece of paper and colored with marker or crayon.



The last step is to cut them out, arrange them in a fractured (or Cubist) form and glue.


I like the idea of backing the whole piece in a color to complement the colors used in the collage/drawing.


The whole purpose of this exercise was to play around with breaking apart faces/profiles and gaining some understanding of what Picasso was experimenting with. I guess you can see that the possibilities are unlimited. I hope some of you give it a try with your students trying some other options!!

6 comments:

  1. Love that you took this to a new season. Really cute.

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    1. Thanks. I am thinking you could go wild with different seasons!!

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  2. What a fun idea! Kids would love this.

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    1. Thanks. They REALLY loved the Frankenstein version, so other seasons would probably be just as enticing!!

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  3. What fun! Such a great twist on a regular snowman!

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    1. Thanks, Patty. I am waiting until it gets a bit colder to try it out with kids (although we got a little bit of a nip in the air today -- for So Cal that is!!)

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