Picasso rooster art lesson

Are you looking for a way to teach CUBISM to your students? Move beyond Picasso's cubist portraits and have fun with Picasso's painting, Le Coq (The Rooster) Picasso is not known for his paintings of animals but a few emerged - The Rooster (Le Coq) in 1938 and Cat Catching a Bird in 1939. Many students are familiar with the way Picasso showed both the profile and frontal face views in his portrait paintings and the same is true for The Rooster (Le Coq). This lesson details every step of the…

Bought a photo book with all kinds of great pictures of Roosters and Hens. The children choose their favorite. They drew it on Black Foam Core and used chalk pastels. Ages 4 to High School age did this project.

The terrifically colorful roosters are one of my all time favorite projects...they're inspired by Picasso's Le Coq...and I think all of the students were channeling his creativity when they worked on these. I would frame each and every one of them...love...love...love the results!

After creating our farm landscapes, we jumped right into a farm animal unit using different mediums. Students looked at Picasso's rooster b...

Introduce Pablo Picasso to your fifth grade students with Picasso's Le Coq. This colorful and cubist rooster uses colored oil pastels with most students

Here's another great lesson inspired by Charlotte's Web! This time, the 4th graders learned about how to draw roosters and how Pablo Picasso drew roosters too! The Cock of the Revolution by Pablo Picasso (in our very own Milwaukee Art Museum) Make sure you check out the lesson plan on this one - the 4th graders started their drawing by tracing their FOOT! Really! (They thought I was a little crazy too, but they played along!) Here are some of the 4th graders' finished collages: Enjoy! ~Amy

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Introduce Pablo Picasso to your fifth grade students with Picasso's Le Coq. This colorful and cubist rooster uses colored oil pastels with most students

Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 Picasso in his studio... Genius artist as a boy... Photo of Picasso at 15 years old... Picasso Painting at age 14 Picasso Painting at age 56! PIcasso Rooster 1938 Step by Step Drawing Used this image for refernce shapes Image from http://eyefordesignlfd.blogspot.com/2012/10/accessorizing-with-roosters-for-french.html My step by Step drawing of the Rooster Mrs. Johnson's 2nd grade Practicing the Rooster Redraw for Final on bigger colored paper Adding color Student Work…

The 5th grade students learned about the artist Pablo Picasso through a power point. Picasso was born in Spain and has become one of the world’s most famous artists. The students were able to see the progression of his different styles of art. The Blue Period was a time that was depressing and sad for Picasso. He showed this through painting his artwork in all different shades of blue. His next period was called the Rose Period. He used more bright and cheerful colors. This was a more happy…