Jackson Pollock Splatter Painting

(Art)

It’s time to introduce our kiddo to the father of action painting – Jackson Pollock – with these fun and easy Jackson Pollock art projects for kids. Be prepared for some mess – and some beautiful art!

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) was a famous American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He is best known for his drip paintings. Pollock challenged the Western tradition of using easel and brush and instead used the force of his whole body to paint.

Using Jackson Pollock work as inspiration, we decided to do a splatter art project using our kitchen brush and rubber bands. It’s messy so brace yourself. We had to do this indoor due to bad weather, it was rather manageable thanks to the tray.

Materials:

-paints (we used homemade flour, water, food coloring for our paints)

-paint containers (we re-used glass jar lids)

-silicone brush

-rubber bands

-papers

Instruction:

-lay a sheet of paper on the tray as canvas

-divide paints among containers

-set rubber bands parallel on the tray

-set paint and silicone brush around the paper

-ask your kiddo to dip the brush in the paint, pull it out, transfer it to rubber bands using the brush and flick.

She enjoyed so much to flick the rubber bands. Lots of wow and whiy.

She dipped the brush into each paint from right to left, one by one, while saying “red, green, blue, yellow, pink.”

She made sure each rubber band has paints while counting “one, two, three, four.”

With of course lots of flicking. The joy of making art with mess!

Those laughter and giggles. Oh how much fun we had! She enjoyed creating her own unique painting, splattered the paint most of the time, with a dash of stroking the brush on the paper and some pouring after about 15 enough minutes of flickering rubber bands.

She loved mixing the colors together to make new paint colors on the upside-down lid container. She dipped the brush in one paint, lifted it up, dipped in second paint, lifted it up, dipped in the second paint, etc and transferred those mixed colors on the paper or mostly to the rubber bands before flicking them.

After I helped to refresh the paper and she had enough flickering rubber bands, her way of painting was changed to pouring. After about half an hour of having fun she was done painting and we were left with art masterpiece to be amazed with.

What is she learning:

-motor skills

-language skills

-math

-science

-creative art

Splatter painting is a must try with your little ones. It was so exciting to watch her to flick those rubber bands. Sometimes it was accompanied by ooooh and aaah, other times it was full with counting. So much fun. Those splattered paints were awesome. We never could be certain how our art will be. It adds the excitement. Mixing colors is her soft spot as well. There was lots of talking about color while she mix those colors. She loved it!

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