Picasso Portraits

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist who revolutionized painting, drawing, sculpture, and ceramics. He truly changed the way people think about Art.
Learn more about Picasso by clicking on the painting of 'Child with a Dove'1901
Picasso once said...
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." Quote from Pablo Picasso

Click on the portrait to visit Mr Picasso Head and create your own Picasso portrait and add to the gallery

We used works like this one to provide us with ideas and inspiration

This is another of Picasso's paintings called 'Girl in a Mirror'
Here are some of our creative questions...
1. What style does he use? Why do you think he uses the colors he does?
2. How could he rearrange the faces to look interesting or silly?
3. Do you see any sort of pattern that he seems to use in his paintings?
4. Why do you think Picasso chose to represent his figures in this manner?

For our first lessons we used a pencil to do lots of sketches of faces. We had to sketch looking at the person for 35, 30, 25, 20 seconds at a time. We had to look at the face rather than the paper and try to not lift our pencil. This was really hard but we got better with each practise session.
We then used chalk to draw the face profiles starting in the middle of the page. The next step was to draw the other face so that there are two faces. We went over these chalk lines with black pastel. Next we drew in the forehead, mouth and chin, leaving the neck till later. On the face we drew an eye facing towards us The mouth is where we joined the two faces. This was also where we saw how the two faces fitted together. We drew hair, neck and shoulders.

Then the fun part started. We began using pastels to colour one side of the face with one colour then chose a different color for the other side. We learnt to layer pastel and colour with a light pastel then cover with a dark pastel.

We found out that the oil pastel should be applied heavily. We also found out that with heavy pastel it is easy to scratch off the top layer later on,

Once the entire page is coloured, For the final step we used black Indian ink to go over the black lines again and to add eye lashes and other smaller features we wanted to stand out.

Here are some photos of one of our session. We will show you our artworks next week.