Frida Kahlo

 For the past few weeks we have been painting. We were painting pictures of a woman named Frida Kahlo. She was a famous mexican painter who painted self portraits and in those portraits she usually painted herself with bushy eyebrows and moustaches. Did you know that she was originally was going to be a doctor, but had crippling polio, and had to stop? She ended up being a painter because of that.

We painted her with lots of brightly coloured paints, and were given instructions by our teacher. For the flower we used tissue paper and we folded the tissue paper back and forth like a fan. Then we stapled the middle and then fanned the paper out to make it look like a flower. 

I enjoyed painting the picture, and making the flower. I found it tricky to keep it neat and within the lines. Next time I would change the colour of her flower.