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Picasso Blue Period Portraits (6th grade and up)

Posted by corbie199@gmail.com Oct 1, 2016 Art Projects, Portraits watercolor Leave a Comment

Picasso Blue Period Portraits (6th grade and up)

My oldest group took on a very challenging project for our Picasso Blue Period focus week. I did this project in Carla Sonheim’s “Y is for Yellow” class. I think it is a great project for learning about value and learning how to build up color in watercolor. We started by drawing from Picasso’s original […]

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Picasso Blue Period Portraits (3rd-5th)

Posted by corbie199@gmail.com Oct 1, 2016 Art Projects, Portraits tempera Leave a Comment

Picasso Blue Period Portraits (3rd-5th)

Our theme this week was Picasso’s Blue Period. For the 3rd-5th grade classes, we did blue portraits, exploring tints and shades of one blue color. I went over proportions of a face but let them decide who the portrait would be of, themselves or an invented character. They also got to decide the location of […]

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