Friday, September 27, 2013

Art: Drip, tip or blow

Building on their discovery during their painting with different materials experience, the girls made a painting with all drips, tips and blows.  They started with beautiful handmade papers in rich colors then used spoons to apply a puddle of color.  Then, they tipped and twirled the paper to control the direction of paint or blew the paint into spindly lines with a straw.  Of course, they practiced first on an iPad app that has a drip and tip tool.  They also were introduced to the idea of transparency which is the see-through quality of some paints.  Ask your daughters if she was more mesmerized by the puddles of swirling colors or the skinny crooked lines when making her painting?