Self Portrait Selfie Rembrandt Style
Observe the pose of this self portrait that Rembrandt created. Using your camera phone, set your timer and place yourself in the same pose. Now, drop your pose into an email to yourself. Next, open your lap top to your email and open the pose. Enlarge the photo so that it comes up to at least 8x10 inches. Print out your image. Next, use one of the classroom light tablets. Place your image on the tablet and tape it down, Next take a piece of tracing paper and tape it over the image. Lastly, outline your image onto the tracing paper.
The next phase is to glue your tracing paper down to a stronger form of paper. Using color pencils bring your image alive Rembrandt style. This means to give your background darkness in the baroque style. Add shading to one side of the face as he does. Replace your clothes with more Renaissance style fashion and add the same hat he is wearing.