Grotesques in Profile

Roman awarded Creative Arts Catalogue Cover 2020 (bottom left hand corner)

Grotesques in Profile

Roman, Thla, Bisman, Phoenix, Jada and Tejeshvi - Year 2

St Anthony of Padua Primary School, Melton South

Leonardo da Vinci was obsessed by faces. He filled sketchbooks with drawings of people with interesting and unusual features. He called these ‘Grotesques.’ We studied Leonardo’s ‘Grotesques’ and also sculptures of grotesques faces created by other artists. Following this we created our own ‘Grotesque.’ First, we drew a face in profile and then used a variety of coloured shapes to collage the features on the face. Lastly, we chose a contrasting colour to mount the face on.