Monday, November 2, 2009

Pablo Picasso Gets Blue

All first graders have been studying the artwork of Pablo Picasso. The last couple of weeks we looked at his painting called Weeping Woman. This is a very colorful and kind of crazy artwork. Now we are studying Picasso's Blue Period. Pablo Picasso has a time in his life that was very sad and he painted blue pictures because of it. One of his paintings was a self-portrait which is a picture that you make of yourself. We are making self-portraits and we will be coloring them blue. We also learned that when you color something just one color it is called monochromatic! Here are some of the first drawings as examples:

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