Creating Visual Metaphors 

for Esperanza Rising

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).

A Visual Metaphor

is an image used to suggest something other than what it is.

Examples of visual metaphors

What do the following images mean to you? 

• Heart    • Lightbulb

   • Tear

Examples of visual metaphors used on maps

• Gas stations • Camping sites

 • Food

 • High ways

 • Rivers

Examples of visual metaphors used in cartoons

What do you think the artist wanted you to think when he drew this?

Examples of visual metaphors used in our environment

• Bathrooms    • Logos

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?    

Examples of visual metaphors used in Esperanza RisingToday 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

What you will need:

• Cup of water• Paper (put your name on the back)• Pencil• Brushes• Paint• Paper towels• Fruit and Fruit stencils

Step 1 Setting up your desk

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)

Step 2:  Looking at your subject

• What shapes  do you see?

• What colors do you see?

Step 3: Drawing your subject

    Choose a stencil that is the shape of your fruit.     

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.   

The Color Wheel

• Primary• Secondary• Analogous• Complementary• Warm• Cool

Step 5: Oil Pastel

Now take the paper with your pencil drawing and fill these shapes with a basic color

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.

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.  

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.  

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.

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.  

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? 

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.

 

Pamela Hunt Lee

 

Pamela Hunt Lee

 

Pamela Hunt Lee

 

Pamela Hunt Lee

 

Pamela Hunt Lee