Frida Kahlo

Towards the end of last term and beginning of this term, we have been learning about Frida Kahlo.  She was a Mexcian painter who painted self portraits. In her portraits, she usually painted herself with bushy eyebrows and moustaches. Did you know she had polio when she was 6 year olds and walked with a limp for the rest of her life? She was also in a bus crash when she was 18 years old. Her injuries were so severe that she spent many weeks in the hospital. She felt physical pain throughout her life. That's when she started to paint.

The painting tecniques we used were:

• to use both sides of the paintbrush
• to use long brush strokes
• to mix colours to create the colour we wanted

We used lots of colourful paints to paint her face. To make the flower(s) on her head, we used tissue paper. 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.