5th Grade Picasso Portraits Finished

It is a real challenge this year to help my 4th and 5th grade students accomplish projects that require lots of studio time in half hour periods every 6 days. However, with a few "finish up days" where students are able to work on projects from past lessons, we have finally finished our Picasso Portraits (at least the majority of us)!

Several of you have been asking to see the final results, so here they are! Thank you for being so patient and fabulous job to all of my hard working 5th graders!

5th Grade Picasso Portraits in Progress

It's taking us a little while to finish up our paintings with half hour art classes, but we keep moving on! Here are some updates...

5th Grade Picasso Portraits

5th grade students each received their own sketchbook this year to understand the importance the role of sketching plays when designing an artwork or product. They started off the year reviewing right side of the brain drawing and thinking using their facial features. We talked about how cubist artists started a movement using different perspectives of the same object, person or landscape in the same composition.

Here are some of their sketches and transfers to their final copy:

5th Grade Contour & Construction Line Shoe Watercolors

5th grade learned how construction lines help build a form. Construction lines are like beams that help support a building. The form we chose to draw was a shoe, straight off out feet! We turned our construction lines into contour lines. Contour lines are basically an outline of lines, shapes, and shadows in a form.

Fifth grade worked so intensely on their drawings that they ran out of time to complete their watercolors. However, the product they did achieve was fabulous!