Picasso Abstract Faces

We looked at some art pieces by Pablo Picasso and read a story book about a period of his life called, “Pablo Picasso and the Girl With the Ponytail”, by Laurence Anholt.

We then created our own ‘abstract’ faces on tag board, initially with pencil and then traced with black Sharpie.  We worked through the sections together as a series of directed drawing lessons.  We incorporated eyes, eyebrows, noses, mouths, cheeks, necks, jawlines, hair, and head dresses.  Felt markers were used for the parts that we wanted to be emphasized (for the ‘pop’).  Background areas were shaded in using pencil crayons or waxed crayons.


Here are the finished pieces which are posted on the bulletin board in our classroom:


















The move to the library …

We are working out of the library while our classroom is being painted.

Yes, I know the date is wrong … I noticed it after I had taken the photos and gone home 🙄😂






With a bit of luck we will be returning to our classroom by Wednesday or Thursday next week.  We will definitely be appreciating being back ‘home’ 😊

Our Snow Families


We have completed our long and detailed art project.  It was many steps over several days.  First we painted blue backgrounds.  Then we added tissue paper and glitter snow along the bottom. Painted balls were then placed to represent the members of our immediate families. Foam board was used for the accessories of hats and scarves. Permanent markers for small details – eyes, arms – were used. At the end we added more tissue paper snow to the bottom and placed snowflakes in the sky.  Our family names were mounted on foam board and attached.  They look great!














Poppies in the style of Georgia O’Keefe

We created our lovely small poppies for our Remembrance Day wreath. The outer rim are our traditional poppies, and the inner ring are from a design created by Robin Roberts, an Indigenous artist of Tsimshian, Haida, and Squamish ancestry. It will be presented at our Remembrance Day assembly tomorrow morning.

We then had a directed drawing lesson on a single poppy filling a huge paper, much as Georgia O’Keefe did with much of her artwork. Students went over their pencil lines with china grease markers and filled the centres with oil pastels.  The petals were painted with red tempera paint. Once dry these were cut out and glued onto green construction paper.

















Primary Colours Create Secondary Colours

Students were given paint palettes with three colours of paint – red, blue, and yellow. The instructions were to paint any picture they wanted but they needed to show six colours – both primary and secondary colours. To be fair, they mostly made ‘intermediate’ colours as the colours they created were most likely not of equal amounts of primary colours. Most students managed to make secondary colours (orange, green, and violet).  Some people discovered what happens when they mix too many colours –  they get brown.