Today there was a Princess birthday party for a little girl who was turning five. Her and seven of her good friends came to celebrate and create a princess picture at the studio.
Except for the one boy, who was happy to skip the princess picture and make a self portrait instead.
I presented the work of Amedeo Modigliani and together we talked about what we noticed in his art.
Giraffe necks.
Long faces.
And then we got to work.
Who is your favorite princess?
Can you guess which one was the most popular?
None other than the singer of "Let it go", Elsa.
Tied for second place was Snow White and Merida.
Starting with copy paper, each child created a long circle for the head. Some of them were happy on the first try and others were happy on the third or fourth try.
We repeated this process with the neck.
Once they were happy with the neck, we went over hair.
Does your princess have curly or straight hair? How can we draw shape to create the hair?
Then again using the same process, they added hair, the eyes, the nose, and mouth.
By the time they had a final sketch they liked, I'm guessing each child had probably worked on five or six sketches. Then we did a pencil rubbing on the back of the sketch, placed it on the grey pastel paper I had taped to the table, and traced their final sketch.
Finally, I brought out the oil pastels.
I showed them how to overlap the colors. I gave them an "artist secret" and convinced them to start coloring the background first instead of their faces.
Then we smeared.
And smeared.
And smeared some more until their backgrounds were a fabulous combination of colors.
After that, they began coloring in their skin tones and all the other details.
Finally, I had them go back over their pencil lines with the black pastel.
Then just for fun, I gave each child a skewer so they could go back into the work and scratch in their signature. They also were told they could add in pattern and whatever else they desired into the work.
It was pretty precious when the birthday girl stood back from her work and announced, "I really like this picture"
Happy 5th Birthday Miss C!! It was fun meeting you and all your friends.
Snow White created by the birthday girl
self portrait
Snow White
Elsa
Merida
Merida
Elsa
Elsa
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