1. Class Survey  Have you ever had your portrait made?  Does anyone have the birthday October 25 th ?  How long have you been drawing?  Have you ever drawn a picture using a computer?

2. Survey Continued  Have you ever heard of the artist Pablo Picasso?  What can you tell me about Picasso?

3. My Picasso Cubist Self-Portrait This is a two week lesson. In this lesson we will: Learn some facts about Pablo Picasso Look at some of his Cubist Portraits Create self portraits in a Cubist style using the computer Picasso, self portrait

4. Pablo Ruiz Picasso  Picasso was born in Spain on October 25, 1881.  He began to draw when he was 7 years old.  His father was an art teacher.  He is the most famous artist of the 20 th century  He died in 1973.  He has 3 museums dedicated to his work. One is in Spain and 2 are in France.  Picasso Museum, France Picasso Museum, France Picasso Museum, France  Picasso Museum, Barcelona Picasso Museum, Barcelona Picasso Museum, Barcelona

5. Vocabulary Portrait: The drawing or painting of a particular person. Geometric Shapes: Are precise forms such as squares, circles, triangles and rectangles. Cubism: An artistic style, that describes paintings of a person, place or thing that are made of geometric shapes and many different perspectives. Abstract: Art that changes realistic things into un-realistic things by using patterns and shapes. Sometimes they become so un-realistic that you cannot even recognize what they are (non-representational).

6. Picasso’s Cubist Portraits During his career, Picasso invented many artistic styles. The most well known style was called Cubism. During his career, Picasso invented many artistic styles. The most well known style was called Cubism. This painting recently sold for $4,000,000. (4 Million Dollars)

7. Picasso’s Cubist Portraits Cubism: An artistic style, that describes paintings of a person, place or thing using geometric shapes and different perspectives.

8. Picasso’s Cubist Portraits In portraits, it means showing different parts and sides of the face at the same time.

9. Picasso’s Cubist Portraits

12. Project: My Picasso Cubist Self-Portrait 1. Using a digital camera, take a photograph of your face looking straight at the camera. Then, take another photo of the side your face (profile). 2. Save the photos onto the computer with your name in your class folder. 3. Go to Start; then all Programs; Accessories; then click on Paint. Once in the program, go to File; Open; change the Look In: to the file where you saved your photographs. 4. Open the first photo and use the star select tool (1st tool in the box) to select only part of your face. Go to edit; and copy. 5. Go to File; Open; select the other photograph. 6. Then go to Edit; Paste; and Image; un-check Draw Opaque.

13. Project: My Picasso Cubist Self-Portrait 7. If you make a mistake – go to Edit; Undo. 8. Once the face part is in the general position; you may need to make it fit better. Go to Image; Stretch/Skew. Fill in the table with numbers to change the size of the photo. 9. Use the bucket tool to change the background color of your image. The color picker is at the bottom. 10. Begin to draw over the photos with the paint brush. It is the 4 th tool down to the right. You can change the size of the brush stroke by the selection at the bottom of the tool box. 11. Completely paint over the underlying photos to complete your Cubist self portrait.

14. Project: My Picasso Self-Portrait 1. Using a digital camera, take a photograph of your face looking straight at the camera. Then, take another photo of the side your face (profile). 2. Save the photos onto the computer with your name in your class folder. 3. Go to Start; then all Programs; Accessories; then click on Paint. Once in the program, go to File; Open; change the Look In: to the file that you saved your photographs in. 4. Open the first photo and use the star select tool (1st tool in the box) to select only part of your face. Go to edit; and copy. 5. Go to File; Open; select the other photograph. 6. Then go to Edit; Paste; and Image; un-check Draw Opaque. 7. If you make a mistake – go to Edit; Undo. 8. Once the face part is in the general position; you may need to make it fit better. Go to Image; Stretch/Skew. Fill in the table with numbers to change the size of the photo. 9. Use the bucket tool to change the background color of your image. The color picker is at the bottom. 10. Begin to draw over the photos with the paint brush. It is the 4 th tool down to the right. You can change the size of the brush stroke by the selection at the bottom of the tool box. 11. Completely paint over the underlying photos to complete your Cubist self portrait.

15. Review In this project you learned that:  Pablo Picasso is the most famous artist of the 20 th century (the past 100 years)   Portrait: The drawing or painting of a particular person.   Geometric Shapes: Are precise forms such as squares, circles, triangles and rectangles.   Cubism: An artistic style, that describes paintings of a person, place or thing that is made of geometric shapes and many different perspectives.   Abstract: Art that changes realistic things into un-realistic things by using patterns and shapes. Sometimes they become so un-realistic that you cannot even recognize what they are (non- representational).   You learned how to make art on the computer using a simple drawing program called Paint.   You learned that if you morph 2 photos of yourself together and paint them as one face it looks like Picasso’s Cubist style.

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