Playing

    This piece i simply did by cutting up an old t shirt and dipping it in a mix of blue and pink paint. Then i pressed and pulled it across the page, improvised, to create a mess. I then stuck another piece of the t shirt to the page after letting it get marked by the paint. This was inspired by kids at a young age playing with paints or playing outside and getting all muddy. I enjoyed doing this piece as it was an idea i got in the moment so the feeling of pure, messy, freedom like a child exploring paints or the garden was similar at least. The mix of the colours blue and pink, creating purple worked perfectly as i view the colour purple as creative. Only when you try something and explore it alone can you discover your own technique in art or story in books, much like how the purple is the idea that was discovered when playing.
    As this was an on the spot experiment about creating a mess i like how it originally is as it is genuine and not artificially made. However, to develop this further i would create a bigger piece where i could throw paint and spray it freely. Dipping pieces of clothes into paint and throwing them at the sheet to create a mark. Or do this on a sheet of different shades of grey clothing, sewed together to make one sheet. It could include foot and hand prints as children always make dirty marks with those.