Inspired by Pablo Picasso's cubist period portraits

Inspired by Pablo Picasso's cubist period portraits, the kids in one of my (many!) summer camp classes at the Fillmore Arts Center made these great, wonky, colorful faces from cardboard. I showed them works by Picasso, asked them to make at least the eyes of their faces asymmetrical, and then let them loose on a huge pile of cardboard. They glued them together, colored them with oil pastels, and then painted over the whole face with watered-down black tempera paint (they then blotted the excess off with a paper towel). The result are fun funky faces with their three-dimensional quality emphasized by the black paint, that stays best in the crevices between pieces. This was one of the kids' favorite projects.