Station 6:
Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
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Station 6: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus Click on the picture to see the artists:
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Sixth Station: A woman wipes the face of Jesus by Rachel and Amber
Rachel's account: How we painted the picture:
In our picture you can see Jesus on the cross with a woman called Veronica standing weeping because the man she loved was dying on the cross. She is holding a cloth in her very thin hands so she can wipe the face of Jesus. If you look closely you can see that Veronica was holding a lily and that represents purity. Also in the sky there is a dove that represents peace and when Jesus was baptised God came down as a dove.
Amber and I used several different sketching pencils to do rough sketch to begin. We choose the colours for the painting together. We did the sky starting of with a pale red and worked our way down to a darker red. We did this because apparently just before Jesus died the sky turn into a sort of sky. It also represents the blood that was shed on that particular and the light of the world going out because Jesus was going to die.
We did the sun a darker yellow because the sun was supposed to be setting.
How we tried to copy some of the techniques used by the Pre-Raphaelites artists:
We used the Pre-Raphaelite stunner Elizabeth Siddal. The artist that painted the painting that we used, that Elizabeth Siddal starred in. This picture is a picture of Elizabeth Siddal. We used this Pre-Raphaelite woman to give us an idea of how the woman in our painting should look. We chose her because she has a really nice feature about her. Also her eyes are great to use for our painting. We used the technique of Raphaelite artists by sketch our own view of the Pre-Raphaelite women before we used them on our painting. Also we looked at books on Pre-Raphaelites and got ideas in our heads about how they looked like.
Amber's account: How we painted the picture:
Rachel and I chose several different pencils to start off the rough sketch, but only used a few. When it came to the painting and I completed the sketch of the woman, I made her skin colour by mixing a small amount of red and some peach-colour to a lot of white. Rachel didn’t know how to do this properly, and her skin-colour for Jesus turned out pink. I made my skin-colour paint paler by adding more white and let her use that.
Later, I started the dress of the Pre-Raphaelite woman, and painted it light blue with a slightly lighter blue for the foreground sleeve. The cuffs around the edge of the sleeves I painted dark blue, and then got a shock as I realised that Rachel had painted the lady’s lips bright red.
How we tried to copy some of the techniques used by the Pre-Raphaelite artists:
We tried to keep to what our teacher told us: prominent nose and chin for the women, reddish brown-coloured flowing hair, and also he told us we had to have a Pre-Raphaelite woman in every picture. Ours was Elizabeth Sidall, posing with a lily in her right hand and her left arm reaching out as if to touch Jesus’ cheek.