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July 15 – Happy Birthday, Rembrandt

    Posted on July 15, 2022     


This is an update of my post published on July 15, 2011:


July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt


Have you heard of the artist named Rembrandt? Did you know that his real name was Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn?

One of the most important Dutch artists in history, Rembrandt lived during the 1600s, a period we now call the Dutch Golden Age.
Rembrandt is especially known for his portraits and self-portraits. Here are three self-portraits from different times of Rembrandt’s life:

July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt

July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt

July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt

Try creating your own self-portrait. Here are some ideas:

Choose a photo of yourself and carefully sketch with pencil what you see. Try to focus on the shapes formed by the “negative space” between your eye and eyebrow, for example, or between your lower lip and chin line. Notice how dark and light different areas of your photo are, and try to capture that in your drawing. It might help if you make a black-and-white copy of your photo before starting your sketch.

July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt


Or make an enlarged copy of a photo – and then cut it in half. Attach one half to a piece of paper – and try to draw the missing half!!

Sit in front of a mirror and sketch yourself. This is more difficult because you will be moving and may also change expression, but it is a fun experiment to try.

July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt

July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt
If you get permission to do so, you can use special
easily-removable markers to draw a self-portrait
RIGHT ON a mirror!


Enlarge a photo, using a copier, and create grid of evenly-spaced lines on the enlargement. Use very light pencil lines to lay down a proportional grid on your drawing paper. (In other words, even if the squares in the drawing-paper grid are larger than those on the photo, make sure that both grids are the same number of squares high and wide.) Then copy the dark and light areas in each square of the photo onto the drawing paper.

July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt


Here is a WikiHow article about self-portraits. 


Also on this date:

July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt


Mythicist Thomas Bulfinch’s birthday 





July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt
Gummi Worm Day







July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt

St. Swithin’s Day




July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt
Mathematician Fibonacci’s birthday



July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt



Anniversary of Twitter’s introduction



July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt

His Majesty the Sultan’s Birthday in Brunei



July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt




Be a Dork Day



July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt

Birthday of first Cuban American elected to Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen





July 15 - Happy Birthday, Rembrandt

Birthday of astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell





Plan ahead:

Check out my Pinterest boards for:

  • July holidays
  • July birthdays
  • Historical anniversaries in July

And here are my Pinterest boards for:

  • August holidays
  • August birthdays
  • Historical anniversaries in August


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