Picasso inspired art

Picasso inspired Portraits Step 1) Picasso, Abstract Art and Cubism For our first art lesson I chose a Picasso inspired project since the students have learned about the artist and Cubism in their arts unit already. As an introduction to our project the students watched a video about Picasso, Abstract Art and Cubism. I showed the student some of his portrait paintings and we talked about Picasso's abstract way of painting and expressing feelings by showing a face from two or more sides in…

There are so many ways to teach Picasso portraits, I'm working with 3rd grade so I wanted to keep it simple. I'll show them some of Picasso's Portraits and then go into the project - demonstrating each step. I'm going to ask them to create diagonal folds, not even folds that create squares on their page, but more random folds. They should make about 5 folds and then using a ruler go over the fold lines with a sharpie. Looking at the lines on their page and turning it around from different…

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Picasso inspired, painted with acrylic

As of recently, people on the internet have laid their eyes on yet another artist. This time we’d like for you to see the works of an 18-year-old Japanese artist named Keito (慧人). What makes his works unique is the fact that the young artist has a very steady hand that lets him create realistic (or should we say overly realistic?) drawings that might have you looking twice. His pencil drawings are giving people a hard time trying to discern the artwork from actual objects.

I immediately told 3rd graders that this project was all about UNLEASHING their craziest selves! 3rd grade is an awesome age group for this cubist self-portrait project because they aren’t af…

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