Cubist Portraits - Fine Art Workshop Day 1

For the first day in the Fine Art workshop, my group and i looked at the art movement Cubism. We particularly looked at the cubist portraits done by Pablo Picasso.
We were asked to stretch a sheet of A2 paper and were told to draw lots of large triangles/squares on the page to fill it.
Once we had done this, we were told to get a mirror, and in the shapes we previously drew, draw what we saw in the mirror. We were advised not to be too accurate as our portraits were to be as abstract as possible.
I decided that i didn't want my self portrait to be realistic so i drew parts of my face again but in different shapes. Once we had finished drawing, we were able to paint our portraits. To ensure that mine was as abstract as it could be, i took inspiration from the colours that Pablo Picasso used in his portraits. An example of this is that i used a green/yellow tone for my skin and a dark blue for my hair. I also decided to draw around some of the shapes i drew on the page  at the beginning of the session, to add a little more sharpness to my self-portrait.

My Finished Self-Portrait.

I really enjoyed this workshop, i found it fun and a challenge. I particularly enjoyed painting the self portrait as it was fun to experiment with colours and not have to use realistic colours.