Painting Like Pollock!

This morning, we decided to paint like Jackson Pollock! Since we had shades of green on our minds from yesterday's reading of Green and from creating our big green paintings, we thought we would challenge the Willows to mix their own jars of green paint. We researched Pollock and discovered that he liked to get low to the ground to splatter and drip paint on a big canvas! He would use paint brushes, spoons, and even spatulas! We set out jars, sporks, and straws to create our own shades of green!

We used yellow and blue paint, but then wondered what would happen if we added black or white? The Willows found out that white made their green "lighter" and black made their green "darker!"

REMINDER: Please don't forget that there are conferences tonight and tomorrow night. We can't wait to chat during your allotted time!

Off to splatter and drip!

Paint brushes and sporks flicked light greens, dark greens, and "medium" greens all over the paper! In no time, the white was covered with layers of different shades of green.

We also discovered that painting like Pollock could get pretty messy, but that was okay! The Willows went with the flow and really enjoyed the process.