Picasso was my very first "favorite artist." I first saw his art in a board game I played with my siblings called Masterpiece. When my boys were teens, we saw a Picasso exhibit at the High Museum in Atlanta, and I purchased a coffee table book of his work. So when I saw this class, I knew I had to take it. I pulled out that coffee table book for color inspiration (color families is more like the way they turned out.) 

And although I was determined not to paint faces, I began seeing them in several and could not get those images from my mind. Ha. I painted four small and two large - and because some of my ink lines were faint, I went over some of them with a Posca pen, and I even added a couple of lines on some of them to create more boundaries.

The brown and green one looks like a wonky rendition of the word LOVE to me, so I made the last circle a sideways "e" with a pop of red. I color mixed the green and brown from paints already on my palette. 

As I was going through the coffee table book looking for color inspirations, I saw his painting called Man in the Hat, which used collage and decided to try that with one of the smaller paintings. I'm pleased with the way it turned out. Perhaps "The Man with the Chin"? Or "Bulbous Nose?" LOL!

The yellow and blues - I liked the different blues with this one, and look - no face!

I purposely wanted one with a heart, but as soon as I finished, I saw a face and it would not disappear. So I'm naming this "Franky Has a Heart and Chocolate in His Hair" - a monster for my granddaughter. LOL!

And finally the one I cannot stop laughing over. As soon as I finished with the ink, I named this the KitchenAid Mixer. Never my intent, but it stuck. 

I loved Picasso before, but I think I appreciate his work a bit more after this. 

Another fun project, right when I needed it.