A famous Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso, was born on October 25, 1881 in the city of Magala in Spain. Picasso's father, Don Jose Ruiz y Blasco, was a painter who specialized in naturalistic depictions of birds and other animals. Picasso started learning how to draw from his father at a very young age of seven. He was sent to art school but dropped out at age 16 because he didn't like formal education. However, that didn't stop him from learning from his father and other artists such as El Greco.

Pablo Picasso categorized his paintings into periods. I choose to recreate the Blue Guitar painting from his Blue Period (1901-1904). Paintings from this period were characterized by somber paintings rendered in shades of blue and blue-green. Many