Action Jackson Paintings

I found this incredible project on Mrs. Knight's Smartest Artists blog. It was so fun, and I think our artists were really impressed with their action paintings. We started with a quick bio on "Action Jackson," and took some time to study Pollock's paintings. We spent the rest of the time painting. Each artist painted one canvas as well as a couple of smaller drip paintings on heavy stock paper. Artists used watered down paint in squirt bottles to work with, and were free to use brushes, palette knives, sponges, and their own hands to create their paintings. 

   

The next session, we read "Action Jackson" by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordon. We also talked about the famous painting, "The Connoisseur" that Norman Rockwell painted of an art critic looking at a Jackson Pollock painting. We took fun pictures of each artist pretending to be studying a great work of art, and then cut them out. Finally, each artist created a gallery floor out of cut paper shapes. Once everything was dry, we put it all together to create these amazing masterpieces!

Art Club Masterpieces on display at our local Tully's!!!