Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress

Frida Wilson

For the last two weeks our whole school has been preparing for an art exhibition which is going to be held this coming Tuesday. Each class has chosen an artist which they will use their ideas and incorporate it into their own artwork at school.
 

 My teacher chose an artist who is unusual and has a sense of humor from her artwork. In her paintings she would draw animals such as parrots and monkeys and has a thing for mono brows and facial hair. Her name is is Frida Kahlo.

One of my favorite painting by Frida Kahlo is called Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress. It is a portrait of her with a background that is set like an ocean. I love the feel of how the waves just flow, with one cloud sitting by itself. I decided to copy the photo but changed it into my on style. It is a portrait of me using pastilles instead of paint. I hope you like it.

HOBBIES

NETBALL AND BASKETBALL

Hi, my name is Nicole and my current hobbies are Netball and Basketball . As you can see they are both sports thats what I love. 

Every Saturday in Winter I would get up at 7:00 and get dressed to play Netball. Every time I would step outside a cold shiver would run up my spine as our netball dresses were quite short and the wind was blowing heavily. My netball team is called the TunderBolts, we are a mixed year 7 and 8 team and we try our best in every game we play. We were in the second highest grade and had challenging opponents, we lost one game and won all of our other games. In the end we came second in our grade but the most thing I loved the most was playing different teams.

Every Friday since the beginning of term 2 I have been playing basketball for school. We are a mixed team of year 7's and 8's and play from the times 3:30pm to 6:30pm. We verse schools like Raroa, Crofton Downs school, St Bridges and schools around the area. The thing I love about basketball is how I can run into people and they get called for the fouls. I especially love playing against girls as they think I'm just like them except I might have more aggression then them. 

What is your favourite sport and do you have any special moves/tricks?


- If you do I would love to see your tricks and hopefully use them in a game. :)

Mine Craft

Over the last few weeks we have been working on our mine craft village. We got into small groups and had a task to create what you were given. I was in a group with Caitlin and Anna and we were working on the cottages. We made at least 8 cottages which to us is a lot.

 After a while Anna and I got bored and decided to create an underground tunnel. We made heaps of bed and chest in case of an emergency.  In the end I had so much fun and hopefully one day we could do something like this all over again.