Thursday, October 20, 2011

     Splattering paint on paper was how we spent our first few weeks of Creative Arts Class.  We would brush over the paper with water before dripping the very bright paint onto it.  Eventually, these papers would make up our sketchbooks, so I knew I had to make them interesting.
     Mrs. Kiick also taught us a technique called transferring.  Transferring is when you glue a magazine picture to paper by covering the paper in glaze and then rubbing the picture onto the paper.  I was amazed at the transfers some of the other students did.  Although I tried multiple times, I unfortunately could not successfully transfer a picture.
     When I found this crazy picture of Barbies in a foamy bathtub, and I couldn't transfer it, I liked it to much to throw it away.  So I took a short cut and instead of transferring it, I just plastered it to my paper with a lot of glue and glaze.  Then, after diluting the paper with a very plentiful amount of water, I dripped black and purple paint all over it and set it down to dry.  The next day I picked it up to find an already weird picture of Barbies surrounded by a creepy mist.  This is my favorite picture that I have made so far, and you can't find another one like it anywhere!