Picasso Heads with 1st Grade!

 

I ran out of time for this project last year with my 1st graders so I decided to revive it for this year! We talked about Picasso and watched the Brain Pop Jr. video on him : http://www.brainpopjr.com/artsandtechnology/art/pablopicasso/preview.weml

 

We wrote a few important facts down in our idea books and sketched a "Picasso-y" head to warm up for this project.

 

We did incised plate printmaking before spring break and this time around we talked about found object printing.

I set out trays of random objects...I cut up some cereal boxes for "lines" and basically used things like legos, q-tips, broken toy parts, bottle caps....marker lids....etc.

 

 

 

They had a tray of black paint to dip in and they loved this.

 

You can see the light pencil drawing of a head and shoulders just to give them a guideline to go by.

 

We will paint these with tempera next class.

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Kinder/ 1st Grade Picasso Heads!

Collage of Picasso Heads!

I did this project with 2nd grade last year and decided it was too easy for them, so we are trying it out with Kinders and 1sters. haha.

First, we studied Picasso's paintings....looked at some cubism and other artists from the movement. Then, we created a "class picasso head" on the website: http://www.picassohead.com/ (you can make heads for hours). We all took turns adding Picasso-y features.

Click here to see Mrs.Van Dyke's class's picasso heads: http://www.picassohead.com/search.html?submitted=1&where=signature&query=van+dykes+class&selected=1174319

Then we practiced drawing 4 heads...as crazy as we could make them! We chose our favorite sketch and enlarged it onto a sheet of 12" x 12" white drawing paper. Then we used recycled materials to stamp in the features of the face with black paint.

Finally, we painted them using tempera cakes. Those pictures coming soon!

stamping Picasso Heads!

my beautifully presented stamping trays...