Picasso inspired self portraits

What a wonderful way to come back to school- Bright smiling faces ready to create art! This week we began class by looking at Picasso's Portrait of Dora Maar and Weeping Woman. Students observed the different shapes, line, color and textured patterns in his work. We discussed what the differences between an abstract portrait and a photograph are. We then discussed what the term self portrait means. This term was new to many students.
Next students did a warm up self portrait drawing exercise. They are marvelous and I intend to put them on display soon! Following the warm up, students created a self portrait inspired by the style of Picasso by using scraps of paper to cut shapes and then draw facial features. After most of their features were complete they assembled them into a portrait and completed it by adding any missing elements they felt it needed.
Again, the room was full of fun and artistic chatter as the portraits were being assembled and coming to life!