How to Create Adult Finger Painting Art©
Posted: Sunday, March 06, 2011
by Arlene Wright-Correll
http://www.learn-america.com
This week’s email question asks, “Exactly what is adult finger painting?”
Basically, this question could be answered with just one answer…You simply paint with your fingers usually using no brushes or palette knives and using acrylic or simple house paints. Yet there is a lot more to it than that.
It generally is done in the genre of abstract expressionism art such as what Jackson Pollack did with his drip art style, but even he had to sit for days thinking and figuring out where he wanted to put his drips of paint and he did not use his fingers.
It is messy, it is fast, it is colorful, it is fun and personally it lets my mind soar! It is a good “break” in any artist’s style of painting simply because it allows one to think outside one’s genre. It is a good start for any adult painting beginner because it truly has no rules except to wear old clothes and to work in a place where you can make a mess and not worry about cleaning up.
It also can be done cheaply by using old house paint or cheap bottles of acrylic paint. I personally go into Lowe’s and buy the small sample cans of Olympic gloss paint and have them make up the colors I want. These only cost $2.98 a can and will do many paintings. Sometimes I even find some of their “Flub” cans of paint and the last time I was in there I found 7 cans of different colors for $1.00 each. What a bargain!
It can be done on old panels of wood, canvases, canvas boards and even poster board. For those starting out I recommend going to the Dollar Tree store where you can get large white poster boards at the low price of 2 for $1.00.
You can do it wearing rubber gloves if you are worried about getting your hands full of paint, but remember you may have to change your gloves a couple of times and I found that I can buy a very large box of rubber gloves at the lowest price available at a Harbor Freight store.
Wear an old apron and wear old shoes and pants as paint will be paint! Depending on the work I want to create decides whether or not I wear the rubber gloves since the rubber gloves sometimes do not fit snug on the ends of my fingers. When I want to do a detailed work such as this portrait of Michael Jackson I just used the ends of my fingers. However, I did use rubber gloves when I did the yellow background and I did the background first. Removing those gloves I then put on a second pair of rubber gloves to put in the black where I wanted it. Since the rest is detail work the gloves came off and the end of my fingers went into the paint pots to create the hand, face, hair and other details. To finish off this painting I sprinkled gold glitter on the white glove, silver glitter on the one sleeve and on the white part of the jacket and then blue glitter on the shoulder part of the jacket.
This whole painting took about 30 minutes to create, but it took me 3 days to think about it once I decided what my subject would be. Yet other times adult finger painting can be utterly spontaneous and if you want to learn how to do it just give me a call at 270 524 9567 and we will have some fun together.
May the Creative Force be with you!
Arlene Wright-Correll
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