Funny Face

You'll crack a smile at these Funny Faces! Try Pablo Picasso's Cubist style of painting - jumble up your eyes, nose, and mouth.

1. Have you seen Pablo Picasso's portraits? He painted people's facial features in weird places. Sometimes he made them odd sizes. This Cubist style of painting uses shapes, such as squares and triangles, in a jumbled, unreal way. It's like looking at someone from several different angles all at once.

2. Try drawing some Funny Faces like Picasso! With Crayola Colored Pencils or Color Sticks, sketch a person's head and shoulders on white paper.

3. Draw the eyes, nose, and mouth so you see two views at once, the front and side. Draw them in unusual places. Your drawing should look weird!

4. Color your portrait with Crayola Crayons or Color Sticks.

5. Hang your masterpiece. Enjoy looking at it from different angles.

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Crafts

crayola supplies

• Crayons
• Colored Pencils
• Construction Paper
• Color Sticks™ Colored Pencils

"Great way to introduce a complicated art form! The kids were so silly, they didn't realize they were learning geometry."
Willem B., home-school parent.

"Young and old enjoyed creating Funny Face versions of family members at our reunion."
Gina K., grandmother of children ages 3 to 15.

Artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque are credited with inventing the Cubist painting movement around 1907. The artists liked to use geometric shapes in unrealistic ways to show several different views of one subject at the same time. In their later Cubist works, the artists often used cut-up pieces of newspaper.