Crafts

     This piece was inspired by doing arts and crafts as a child. The idea of kids at a table, covered with a matt, as they pour paint everywhere and leave messy hand prints on everything made me think about their creative ideas; children's minds are learning, discovering and constantly experimenting. So i decided to recreate those ideas. I began by taking a piece of paper i had put paint on to use for another piece and pressed it onto the page to see what mark the paint would make. I followed this by pouring some new opaque paints i had never used before. As i wasnt use to this new paint it was a similar situation as to when kids have no idea what they are doing with the paints. I dripped paint, let two colours mix together and scrape some more to see the outcome on the page. Scraping the paint doesn't really work for the effects that the paint creates when let dried in thick layers. However letting the paints mix and merge together can create some interesting, uncontrolled effects. Lastly, using biro, i drew art supplies on the page in different techniques. A paintbrush, rubber, pen and lid. These basic art supplies look out of place on the page, almost hidden by the colourful paint markings. I think this shows how art is developed and inspired from a young age, experimenting with hands and learning as kids learn by touching; this later becoming apart of the ability to create art through new, controlled techniques with art supplies.
   To develop this i would include some scribbles with crayons and coloured pencils as that expresses childrens drawing style more explicitly to the viewer. I would also pour more paint on the page, maybe even use ripped, coloured paper as background. The opaque paint wouldn't be used, instead i would use glue and glitter as that was always the main source of mess when playing art supplies.