. Ask: What other decisions will you need to make about your portrait? (What kind of clothing, sitting or standing, whether frontal or in profile or three-quarter as Paul Revere is?) What about the background -- light or dark, plain or with something like a curtain or scene behind the person? What about the objects you might want to show to tell us some important things about the subject? What might they be? Where do you want the light to come from and how will you show that in your portrait?
When the portraits are finished, have the each student show his or hers to the rest of the class and ask them to guess who is the subject of the portrait. As each subject is identified, the artist may want to explain why they chose the particular person to portray and tell a little bit about what it is they most admire in their subject. When everyone has had a chance to share his or her portrait, have them write the names of their subjects on the portraits as well as their own and hang them in the classroom.