I kept forgetting to add this picture on to my blog for you to see, it is a painting by Brueghel the Flemish painter and the task was for each person to enlarge and then duplicate a couple of the squares I gave them. Then we put them all together to make up the whole painting, only about half size I'm afraid though. Its a good exercise because apart from the skill of enlarging an image, always useful to be able to do, the colour matching and mixing improves paint handling skills, and your awareness of colour mixing possibilities.
and the painting is fascinating because if you look closely, (and my goodness you can learn a lot by copying a painting, and looking as closely as you then need to do ) there is so much going on, and each little scenario tells the story of a saying or proverb, like the man, bottom left who is 'banging his head against a brick wall', or the woman on his left who is carrying a bucket of cold water in one hand and a hot coal in tongs in her other hand, showing that she cannot make her mind up about anything!
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