P For Picasso Faces – Get Crafty #BlogchatterA2Z

Pablo Picasso needs no introduction. He is one of most famous artist and reverred the most in art lessons for kids as well. Picasso was born in Spain, Malaga in 1881. From an early age he loved to draw and by the age of eight, he could draw more realistically than his art teacher.

At the age of 23, he moved to Paris in 1904. Paris was considered the capital of the avant-garde, which means “advance guard” in other words. The people and their ideas were cutting-edge and ahead of time which helped him grow more into art.

In Paris, he met George Braque and together they created “cubism”. Cubism is the term used to describe the revolutionary process of fragmenting objects and people to create a new look with multiple viewpoints.

“The weeping woman” is one of Pablo Picasso’s well known painting based on cubism. Rather than an exact portrait of a woman’s face, the use of jagged lines and bright colors with thick bold lines has been done to show her sadness. It looks as if the woman is looking in two different directions. It’s the cubist style. We explored Picasso faces during lockdown 2020 and since then Eira has shared it with alot of her friends.

Supplies
A4 size paper
Oil pastels
Pencil and eraser

Let’s get started
1. A Picasso face is not supposed to be perfect. Let your child use a pencil or a black oil pastel, and draw a face right in the middle of the page. A line goes right through the middle of the face.
2. The features likes eyes, nose, lips, ears are all supposed to be different on each side. One eye can be seeing towards the child while the other in the other direction.
3. Now let the child draw the hair, neck and shoulders.
4. Use bright colors for each section. Both sides of the face will be of different colors. Same goes with other features as well. You can even add eyelashes with black pastel.

Your Picasso face is ready.

We have made a quick video while Eira was working on this art.

Hope you enjoy it!

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