Pablo Picasso

Line drawings

Pablo Picasso was an artist whose work spans a wide range of artistic movements and mediums.

His drawings using a few simple lines and remain some of his

most popular images.

Let’s take a look at some of Picasso’s line drawings.

At first glance we all think we could easily

draw these images but to use so few

lines to express so much is a lot harder

than it looks.

He created beautiful art using a single unbroken line.

Picasso loved animals and owned a huge variety over his life-time

Many appeared in his work, and in particular his line drawings.

This is one of Picasso’s dogs, Lump. Can you tell what kind of dog he owned?

What do you see?

What animals do you see?

His single line drawings are so

simple but at the same time so

powerful.