1. Visual Metaphors for Esperanza Rising
Creating 
Visual Metaphors  for Esperanza Rising

2. A Metaphor is a word or words used to represent something else.
is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making a comparison, as in "a sea of troubles" or "All the world's a stage" (Shakespeare).

3. A Visual Metaphor
is an image used to suggest something other than what it is.

4. Examples of visual metaphors
What do the following images mean to you?
Heart
Lightbulb
Tear

5. Examples of visual metaphors used on maps
Gas stations
Camping sites
Food
High ways
Rivers

6. Examples of visual metaphors used in cartoons
What do you think the artist wanted you to think when he drew this?

7. Examples of visual metaphors used in our environment
Bathrooms
Logos

8. Metaphors used in Esperanza Rising
Why did Pam Munoz Ryan use fruits and vegetables to title her chapters?
What do you think the figs represent in the 3rd chapter?  

9. Examples of visual metaphors used in Esperanza Rising
Today you are going to create a painting of one of the following.
Uvas – grapes
papayas - papayas
higos – figs
Guayabas - guavas
Melones - cantaloupes
Cebollas - onions
Almendras - almonds
Ciruelas – plums
Las papas - potatoes
Los Aguacates - avocados
Los Esparragos - asparagus
Duraznos – peaches

10. What you will need: Cup of water Paper (put your name on the back)
Pencil
Brushes
Paint
Paper towels
Fruit and Fruit stencils

11. Step 1 Setting up your desk
Cover desk with newspapers
Cup or bowl of clean water
Brushes
Palette (paper plate) to mix paint
Two pieces of paper – one for practice. 
Paper towels for spills and brushes
Prepare the papers  (write your name on the back)

12. Step 2: Looking at your subject
What shapes  do you see?
What colors do you see?

13. Step 3: Drawing your subject
Choose a stencil that is the shape of your fruit.   

14. Step 3: Drawing your subject
Using this stencil, draw the fruit or vegetable three times.  
Overlap  the shapes and touch three sides of the paper.  

15. Primary Secondary Analogous Complementary Warm Cool
The Color Wheel
Primary
Secondary
Analogous
Complementary
Warm
Cool

16. Step 5: Oil Pastel
Now take the paper with your pencil drawing and fill these shapes with a basic color

17. Step 5:  Oil Pastel
Add white to show where the light is coming from.  Add a darker color to show what is in the shadow.

18. Step 6 - Adding a complementary color
Look again at the color wheel and find a color opposite your colors on the color wheel.   
Use this color to paint the background of your painting.  

19. Step 6 - Adding a complementary color
Look again at the color wheel and find a color opposite your colors on the color wheel.   
Use this color to paint the background of your painting.  

20. Step 6 - Adding a complementary color
If you have yellows and orange , choose blue or green.
If you have greens and blues, choose red.  
If you have blues and purples choose yellow.

21. Step 5: Oil Pastel
Choose a color for the background  that is opposite on the color wheel from the color of your fruit or vegetable. Use this color to paint the entire background.  

22. Step 6: Oil Pastel
  Think
Think about the fruit you have drawn and the chapter of Esperanza Rising that used this fruit for a title. 
Why do you think the author chose this fruit for the chapter.  What ideas come to mind when you see it?  
Ripeness, dryness, whithered, full of hope? 

23. Step 7 - Clean up Clean your brush in your leftover water
Return water and brushes to the sink
Move your painting to the drying rack
Complete the check list.

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