Use Spaghetti To Paint Like Jackson Pollock
Adding some abstract colour, à la Jackson Pollock, to your living or working space doesn’t have to cost you a year’s rent. It’s nothing resembling authentic, but using spaghetti to paint is a seriously fun project.
Although the tutorial Otterhopdotcom put together for Instructables is geared towards painting with children, the technique can be used by anyone who wants to lay down some interpretive paint. All you need are some shallow bowls, paint, cooked spaghetti, and a blank surface to paint on—whether that surface is a small canvas or your office wall is up to you. Throw some spaghetti in each bowl and stir it around, then commence with the twirling, slapping, dripping, and spinning of spaghetti to canvas to create your colorful abstract masterpiece. For lots of pictures and some additional tips, check out the full tutorial at the link below. How to Use Spaghetti to Paint Like Jackson Pollock [Instructables]
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An alternative to this is to eat a bowl of spaghetti, drink some paint, drink an ass load of tequila, and spin around really fast over a blank canvas. You natural artist will emerge, shall we say, explosively.
eagles3
@eagles3: I'd laugh, but someone will do that and sell it for more money than I make in a year. =/
@eagles3:
This has sorta been done in the Seventies.
Andy Warhol did a series of canvases primed with copper-based paint. They were oxidized by urine from Warhol and his workshop assistants.
Deprong Mori
Our just put paint in your mouth and then just spit it out. Wash it down with some thinner. That's how Pollock got so rich and crazy.
And then you can also have orgies with horses for inspiration.
ridgecity
@eagles3: actually pollack because famous not because of the output of his work, which is impressive if you ever get to see one in person. but because of the performance of the piece being produced
a major part of his notoriety was because he was so well documented by Hans Namuth.
and the real irony of the process you suggest is that pollack himself was an alcoholic, died in a single car crash.
mfusion
Caution: Pasta can attract bugs and mold. Don't let the pasta stay on the wall.
FalknerOgodai
No, you see, the awesomeness to Pollock's work was that he full-body flung the paint at the canvas, splattering on and off of it, and the impact strength combined with the surface tension of his chosen paints actually resulted in micro-fractalization within the surface of the paint and in the patterns. Really cool when you start to look deep. Spaghetti just doesn't have the same result.
maztec
Not really anything close to Jackson Pollock.
Nabeel Siddiqui
I fill my cat's litter box with paints and leave a canvas in front of it. i'm working on getting a chicken and catching a raccoon. Keep watchin' ebay.
jupiterthunder
@mfusion: As opposed to dieing in a series of car crashes! ;-)
ANOPRAX
@ANOPRAX: why not, he is in an accident and an ambulance come to get him then the ambulance gets side wiped by a firetruck and a good Samaritan picks him up, but is hit by a teen driver playing with their iphone finally killing pollack
eagles3
This looks like one of those stupid ideas at Apartment Therapy.
Lulupasternak