Artist in Residence - Priory Lower School - Picasso Yr 4

We looked at Picasso's harlequins 

and cubist musicians and then made 

a felt portrait head inspired by the 

paintings we had explored. We sewed 

them on the sewing machine, I

 steered, the children drove!

Whilst the sewing was taking place the children made

A3 paper collages of their own Picasso inspired musicians

Cubist Collage and Dancing Doves

My second project in Bedford was with Year Four who were looking at Cubist collages inspired by MOMA's 2011 exhibition Picasso Guitars 1912 - 1914. We began by looking at Picasso's preparatory drawings and the children made their own drawings. Drawing exploded, multi-dimensional objects was quite a challenge but once we moved on to using collage materials they became much more confident about playing with space.

The following week we took Picasso's Dove drawings as our inspiration

and created 3D models from empty milk bottles.