Our painting exploration began with multiple stations throughout the room focusing on various ways to create using paints, brushes, and large pieces of paper. I began at the color mixing station. I created a color I titled “Going to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches” using yellow, red, and white. The peach-like color made me think of a silly song with those same lyrics. It was interesting to experiment with different effects. How fast could I move my brush? What happened when I flicked the brush? What if I manipulated the brush using my wrist and not my whole arm? What if I add water? What if I paint using a dry and not a wet brush?
My favorite experiment was dropping the brush onto the page. At this point, we were the last group to experiment at this station and I was not sure I had any original ideas so I dropped my paint brush onto the page. It had a double bounce effect that was really interesting. The first bounce is thick and dark in color, but the second bounces are lighter and often smaller. There was a small amount of local splatter that also occurred, but the brush was not big enough or there wasn’t enough paint to splatter paint very far.
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