For this project, I worked with Annika Nelson and Merrie Aragon (you can find more descriptions about our project on their digital portfolios as well). We read a book called El Nuevo Houdini about a kid named Brandon. In our chapter, Brandon goes to his crush's house to pick her up. Her name is Jamie and they are getting coffee. He borrowed his dad's car while his parents were out of town, so he looks pretty cool. He and Jamie get coffee and make plans for dinner when suddenly someone crashes into his car! The other driver isn't very upset and says they scratch is small. But Brandon knows he has to somehow fix it so his dad doesn't find out.
Frida kahlo project
My Frida is Georgia O'Keeffe. For this project, we had to choose a Frida Kahlo painting that we liked and wanted to paint. We then chose someone to research about (who were dead or alive) and write an obituary about them, that included important parts of their life. After we made many revised versions of our obituaries, we had to make a painting. For this part, we had to recreate a famous Frida Kahlo painting, as I stated before, but base it around our Frida. I chose to paint Frida's painting "Henry Ford Hospital (The Flying Bed)". In her picture she has a cut open stomach that is bleeding and has her unborn child and other things connected to her by strings. I decided to have her eyes bleeding and have strings connecting to a skull and a few flowers. I did this because when she was very old she started to go blind. I included flowers and a skull because some of her most famous paintings are of those. I also included mountains in the background because she moved to New Mexico for most of her life.
my artist statement
I think Frida Kahlo painted many autobiographical paintings of herself so she could express how she was feeling in a visual way so people could better understand her. Honestly, I don't really like the way my painting came out. I don't paint very much so it was sort of new to me, but I still put in a lot of effort and tried my best to make it as good as I could. I think that if I worked on it a little bit longer I would have done a little bit better, but it is what it is. My painting definitely ended up how I thought it was going to: not that great but acceptable. Like I said, I don't paint very often so this was new territory for me. Now that I know more about Frida Kahlo and her artwork, I feel like I have a new appreciation for it because I know how much emotion she put into each piece, and how connected she was to each of her art pieces.