1. Project 1 (part 1) - Insignificant Monuments Questions you should be asking 1.What is insignificant (unimportant, without identity, overlooked, diminutive, hidden or lost in the background, etc)? 2.How to make the insignificant monumental (stands out, important, in the foreground, in focus)? Can it be achieved through color contrast? Point of view? Placement?

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3. KRISTI ROPELESKI kristiropeleski.com Look at Ropeleski’s painting style. She paints loosely

6. Project 1 (part 2) – Race, Gender and Age Questions you should be asking 1.How to portray age and skin colors in paint? (Think of this as an experiment with texture and color) 2.How to pose your subject’s hands in order to make them expressive in space? 3. How do you relate to your subjects? Do you express yourself through them or do you express their individualities, or both?

7. Some examples of handsAge

8. Self Portrait, Lucien Freud In Freud’s painting, the texture of ageing skin is not simply illustrated. It is embodied in In the application of thick, impasto paint.

9. Age

10. ethnicity

11. Gestures associated with particular activities