Paint like Frida Kahlo in 7 easy steps!

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Frida Kahlo had an extraordinary life that gave us extraordinary paintings!
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[@purbashamishra6255]

I love this (including the rather inspired intro). The headlines are still hilarious on 4th watch! 🤣 And the art history snippet made me go away and look up the early history of Frida. Thank you for sharing this video. Brilliant!

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Thanks a lot for watching!

[@joeswampdawghenry]

Oui

[@emmavanschenk9779]

Oh how I loved this video, especialy the intro which shows your sence of humor in every detail (as also seen in orher videos)😂Thank you for making my day start with a smile❤️ Hope to see loads more of your videos 🙏

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Thank you very much, Emma! Have a great day!

[@creativeconexion]

Amazing ❤ totally wonderful c’est vraiment impressionnant 🎉

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

@@creativeconexion awww! Merci beaucoup ! Thank you very much!

[@FamiliarFaith]

Thank you so much for the helpful tips. This will really help me with my art practicle class! Were doing self potraits and Frida Kahlo is one of our 4 artist models! This video was most helpful, thank you very much! 👍🏽💙

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Happy I could help! Cheers!

[@nikkia9506]

That was a very dramatic thunderstorm behind you.

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Indeed! Lol one of these tropical storms we have here, in Singapore! Thanks for watching!

[@anaalfaiate2608]

Inspiring video! I'll try to paint myself in this way to see what´s come out! Thank you for sharing the way you approach art and painting in such a good mood. Following you from Kenya.

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Thank you Ana! Nice to see that my little videos reach an international audience! Cheers!

[@maggiehamm365]

Thank you for this. I really enjoyed it and got a refresher in art as well which was inspiring. I will pass it on.

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Thanks a lot!

[@julianec8494]

Hilarious opening, you really made me laugh out loud😂😂😂 I'm so glad I found your channel! Have a nice day!

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Thanks a lot! I always try to put a little skit in my video (usually a movie parody, actually) but they sometimes take more effort than the video itself(including the painting!) 😂😂😂

[@julianec8494]

@@mygeekfamilycotton I can see the effort going into your videos and I appreciate it, you're doing great! The interest in art made me click on one of your videos, but your sense of humour is the cherry on the topping and you make me look forward to your upcoming videos! The combination of art, vlog, humour and filming is just awesome :)

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Thanks a lot, Juliane! Hope to see you around!

[@smallhouseinthemeadow6131]

I love this!

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Thank you very much!

[@sugarfury]

this is so good really funny

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Thanks, Deborah!

[@selfenigma3184]

I loved this video. I love Frida Kahlo paintings so much. Thank you very much for this explanation.

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Thank you for watching !

[@paulofontes75]

You are a very talented and versatile artist, good video, I hope you also make one about Soutine, Chagall, Roualt, Braque... Greetings and best wishes for success.

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Thank you, Paulo! Yes, Chagall is definitely in my list, I’ll see what I can do for the others!

[@AndrewLuke-fl2gn]

I would love to see Jean-Claude Götting.

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

oh! that is very interesting! will work on it! thanks Andrew!

[@SingYourselfWell]

MATISSE!!! Please do Matisse! My favorite! 💖

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Do love Matisse too! Will add him to the to-do list! A bit of patience please! 🙏

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

I saw that! Very nice and colourful! You can find my IG here : @hervecotton Cheers!

[@rosemaryd.8174]

The Asian Woman is the accomplice? I doubt it. I think the bearded guy is more likely to be her side-kick.

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

😂😂😂 that’s possible, indeed!

[@rosemaryd.8174]

@@mygeekfamilycotton Love your videos! Thanks for all the hard work you put in them. ;)

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Awww, thanks a lot! Just trying to have fun and share it with you guys!

[@leilamirhaghani4109]

How do you paint a portraiture ? the different colors that you use for different planes of face (after shadows) seems very complicated.

[@dolcepeter]

So fun thank you. Do we know if Frida used underpainting technique?

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Hi Kirsten! Good question! There are several unfinished paintings from Frida Kahlo (most notably her self portrait in Detroit from 1932) and they actually don’t appear to have any underpainting. It looks like she was sketching her subject and starting to place the base colors directly. So, no underpainting (like a Rembrandt would do, for exemple), but she was later adding the shadows and lights to her mid-tones. Hope this helps!

[@dolcepeter]

Thank you it does! I’m recreating one of her paintings for a “copy a masterpiece “ class assignment. Thank you ❤️❤️❤️ Love your work

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Thanks a lot for watching!

[@KatVenegas]

Video starts at 3:05

[@senku7996]

Did you use acrylic paint?

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Hi! Yes, acrylic

[@joeswampdawghenry]

Oui oui

[@Swiminatub]

Your quality does not get the credit it deserves

[@emersongarcia7128]

The fancy TV interview intro was far too long. 2 min is good.

[@lanibrockwell9757]

I disagree.. I loved the intro!

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Thanks Lani! To be fair, the “fancy interview” part is actually 1:57… so we are under 2minutes… 😋

[@lanibrockwell9757]

@@mygeekfamilycotton 😁

[@emersongarcia7128]

Intro includes the actual Intro to the video which was more painful.

[@mygeekfamilycotton]

Look, I am not here to start anything, so I guess, I’ll just say this: thank you for trying to watch my attempt at making something fun, I feel a bit sad that you didn’t like it, but after all, it is only a KZbin video, and I think we will both manage to survive. Cheers!