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Part I (Pages 1 - 61)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: McCullough, Joy. Blood Water Paint. Dutton, New York, 2018.

• This book was written from the first-person perspective, and in the present tense, including some present-tense flashbacks narrated by Artemisia's mother Prudentia.

• This book is written in verse for Artemisia's sections, and in prose for the sections from Artemisia's mother Prudentia's point of view.

• Artemisia Gentileschi, a 17-year-old painter in Rome who is apprenticed to her father, Orazio, narrates the book.

• Artemisia begins by saying that everything starts from the viewing point, a single point on the horizon.

• Sometimes when Artemisia works, she can shut out the rest of the world and focus on the stories she is trying to paint.

• In Part I, Artemisia immediately complains about how her father Orazio does very little of the painting but is happy to collect...

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