At first we drew our picture; it was hard but as we drew some more it became easier. At first it was hard to plan where to put our characters, but we soon knew where to put them, then we drew the lily, Charlotte did it. The lily represents purity and the dove represents peace, but we did not have a dove in our picture.

We first painted the sky and the cross, we use reds and pinks then we got some white and put a tiny bit of red in it to make a extremely pale pink, and kept adding red to the white until it was blood coloured, just touching the horizon. The red sky represents the blood of Christ and the setting son, of coarse meaning that Christ was the light of the world.

Then we did the cross, it was coloured a burnt sienna with swirls of dark brown. Then we painted the women’s dresses, we painted the youngest one’s a very pale blue and the oldest one’s a pale purple.

It was a long time before we finished, but Poppy and I were very pleased with it.

Our Pre- Raphaelite model was Alexa Wilding, who is related to a girl in our class called Clara Wilding.

We both started off doing a drawing on an A3 piece of paper, then colouring in parts of the drawing with soft pencils. After we had completed all of that, Lucy and I started off carefully sketching the picture, taking into account everything that Mr. Bortoft told us about drawing prominent chins and noses. We then we selected a range of different colours.

I started off painting the sky a very light pink, getting darker and darker, as it was nearing the bottom, it turned crimson. After that, I painted the cross a Burnt Sienna adding textured Burnt Umber streaks.

Then Lucy started painting the models hair a reddish brown. She then painted the dress a purple colour to represent Lent. After that, Lucy painted the skin colour, a pale peach mixed in with a lot of white. There were two women on our painting, a little girl (which I painted) and the woman (what Lucy drew.)

I did the little girl’s hair a light and dark blonde, then I moved down to her clothes, painting her dress a baby blue.

The girl also had blue eyes, which Mr. Bortoft didn’t like so he put white over them. When it had dried we tried to paint it, but alas, when we had put a tiny bit of paint on, it went all funny, like blue mixed into black. We then had to paint the whole face, but instead of going a pale cream, it went a pale green! But we soon fixed it by waiting for that to dry and painting it the right colour. It still looks a bit strange, but you can’t really tell.

The woman in our picture was Alexa Wilding, who is related to a girl in our class, named Clara Wilding.