In February, the fourth and fifth grade classes spent a week learning about the diverse styles of Pablo Picasso's work. Students then specifically focused on his abstract portraiture work. The class responded to this style with a clay sculpture project mimicking Picasso's profile approach to portraiture. The class made sketches before beginning their clay works. Student's started with a large rectangular slab of clay and cut out a profile of a face. Students worked with the scrap clay adding facial features using a slip and score technique. After an overnight fireing of their project they were then able to glaze their work. Each student's final project was extremely unique!
