Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Color Field Painting

Color Field Painting

In this Project we looked at the work of two abstract artists: Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler. Both were a part of the color field painting movement of the 1960’s and 70’s. These artists used many different tools in place of brushes to paint with. They would use raw canvas and liquefied paint to create large abstract works.

In our small painting we used runny tempera paint on muslin. We used three strange tools to apply the paint: a sponge to apply the yellow, an eyedropper to apply the red and a spray bottle to apply the blue. As we worked the colors over lapped on our fabric and create new colors such as orange, green and purple.








1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hi, I am an art therapy student in college and I am really interested in using my degree to facilitate the art making process for children with disabilities and I was wondering if I would be able to interview you or touch base with you and ask some questions about what you do! I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks!

Elizabeth K