Here are examples of our abstract portraits. During my lesson, I talked about how european artists first got the idea to start painting in ways that were not realistic. At first some of them (Fauve and German Expressionist if anyone wants to look it up) did this by painting realistically but with crazy wacky colors. We looked at pictures of people with green skin and orange hair. Afterwards, other artists (like Picasso) started moving different body parts around. For my example, I asked students to try using experimental colors and then cutting them up. This one was another big hit with students. After focusing so hard on drawing realistically, I think it was really liberating for them.
