1. Column 1  Make a list of 10 words that describe or associated with MN culture. Get creative! Think differently.  Ex. Nice  Ex. Rural Column 2  Make a list of 10 words from memories you have while in MN.  Ex. Boundary  Ex. Baseball

2.  From the previous two lists, combine two words to make a mini phrase.  Ex. Nice Boundary  Ex. Rural Baseball  Huh?…say what? Well…it’s a start…

3.  Minnesota Twins – sports teams…no logos though.  Landscape  Downtown street life  Music culture  Habitat or wildlife 

4.  Open Edgar Degas

5.  Closed Pierre Bonnard

6.  Asymmetrical

7.  Symmetrical

8. How could you capture Minnesota, The North Star State?

11.  Michael Birawer is an American artist. Born and based in St. Paul, Minnesota, he is known for his surrealist paintings of urban settings and their inhabitants.

22. Rene Magritte How could you combine these two pictures to represent a parody about MN? A parody is when you use a previous artists work and change aspects of it to give the visual new meaning in a humorous way.

23.  Sketchbook Plan  Manders needs to see a plan with thumbnail sketches of compositional layouts. (pssst….hey you…yeah, over here..……an openly cropped composition will always look more dynamic than that of a closed composition, so consider running your objects in the picture off the edge of the picture plane).  Reference Image documentation ▪ You should have reference images documented in your sketchbook as well.