Jackson Pollock Art

What an artful day we experienced last week!  It was a perfect day for lots of painting outside so that's just what we did.  We focused on the artist, Jackson Pollock, who was somewhat of an experimenter with paints.  He "threw" paints onto canvases to make unique pieces of art. 

We learned that Pollock would use his body to move around the canvas and he preferred painting when his canvases were on the floor of his art room.  We put our canvases outside and filled up our paint cups with brilliant colors and did just the same.  The boys had a wonderful time spattering and throwing paint.  I was quite impressed with the finished products.  

Jackson and Andrew came up with the idea on Friday to blow the paints onto paper.  We learned that Jackson Pollock experimented with different tools such as sticks and kitchen utensils.   Jackson and Andrew decided to use straws.  In addition, all of the boys found time to finger paint more pictures outdoors.  I've posted pictures of those activities below.  If you'd like to try to create your own mess-free "Jackson Pollock" at home, go to the link, www.jacksonpollock.org/

The above picture is one of Andrew and Ryan dancing.  We've been working with the rhythm instruments lately but in this picture, the boys were rocking out to Mr. Al.