Painting Like Jackson Pollock

[smallhobbit]

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!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Lovely! The trees are particularly pretty! What sort of paints did you use?

[smallhobbit]

Thank you - I was pleased with the trees. I used mostly acrylic paints, but one side of the bag (yellow, red, blue) is fabric paint.

[badly_knitted]

I wonder if watercolours would work. I was thinking of splashing colours on blank cards to give a pretty background for home made greetings cards.

[smallhobbit]

I would think they would. They might not be as vibrant, but they should work well as background. You should have a try.

[badly_knitted]

Maybe I will when I have the time to dig out the paints!