Painting Like Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollock was famous for splattering his canvases with paint, which is what we got to do yesterday.  All great fun.

I began outside in a quiet area close to the pond:



which was particularly pleasant since everyone else started off indoors.

After a practice on a sheet of paper:

   

I put my cotton bag on the back of a chair



and began to paint it

   

Bag decorated on both sides, (and the seat of the chair) I headed back indoors, pausing to watch the mother moorhen feeding her chick



Once inside I worked on a tree, using a tapping motion rather than full arm waving 



And tried out the same technique and basic picture on a piece of fabric



Before adding more paint onto the original picture on paper



And surprisingly, apart from getting some paint on my hands, I didn't get messy!