Matthew 27: 13-25, Mark 15:6-15, Luke 23: 13-25, John 18:39-19:16.

We started by drawing our own separate pictures on A3 and afterwards we compared them. Unfortunately we were a bit slow finishing them!

When we came round to drawing the actual one it all went quite well until one of us (Emma- the slow one) started using A4 to practice on and was too scared to do it on the real thing!

We started by doing the sky because it was the largest area on our picture. Starting with the base colour- white, gradually adding more red, then crimson, as we got further down the page. This took a couple of days due to delays. The sky represents the blood of Christ and the setting sun.

We then painted the woman’s face, which was quite fun because we like mixing colours! We also painted Jesus’ face which was a lot darker and looked very much like chocolate!

Next, we painted the dove, to symbolise peace, in a very light grey, with hints of dark grey. On the inside of the wings, we did an even lighter grey with hints of the other grey to show where the feathers were.

Next, we made a slight mistake by painting the woman’s hair before her robe! To paint her hair, we mixed a colour using red and a few browns, (great fun) to get the base hair colour. When it had dried, we put brown highlights into it.

After a couple of sessions painting, we noticed we hadn’t finished the woman’s hair. This would have been easy enough to improve if we had not thrown the colour away. However, Mr. Bortoft helped us but accidentally painted over some of the ladies chin! (He doesn’t know that!)

After we had painted Jesus’ hair, which was a straight forward black, we did the woman’s clothes. We did them purple- which is one of our favourite colours.

Next, we painted Pontius Pilate and the lily. The only thing that went wrong with Pontius Pilate was we painted the face but forgot to paint the neck so we had to try and get the same colour again. We kind of succeeded but not as well as we hoped! Also, we made the same mistake when we forgot to do the ladies hand at the same time as we did the ladies face -but we succeeded better!

Our favourite bit was when we painted the crown of thorns because we got to mix lots of colours!

We used Annie Miller’s face for the woman because it appealed to us and it was facing sideways!

We used Dante Gabriel Rosseti’s face for Pontius Pilate. He looked very stern and was one of the few paintings of men.