Picasso Cubism Study

Our last day of co-op art for this year! We had an interesting time looking at some of Picasso's more familiar (and strange) works (see last week's Picasso's Peace Doves post). We talked about cubism, the idea of "seeing" different sides of one object in a single picture. We tried it ourselves in a project found on the excellent art site artprojectsforkids.org. I directed their drawings while they sketched in pencil. Then we used black colors to outline our drawings, and colored in with oil pastels. Strange color choices were encouraged, in the Picasso style! When I made my practice project, I found that the black pastel smeared too easily when coloring. Try to make the black line thicker rather than thinner for best results.