UVU professor and photographer Brenda Barrett Lovell is our highlighted artist this week. You can view her piece online as part of the UVU Museum of Art’s 2022 Faculty Art Exhibition. Her photograph Honey Still Life is vibrant and fresh. The camera focuses heavily on the honey jar and dipper, capturing the movement of the dripping of honey. She uses light to draw the viewer into the piece and causes a reaction. What would it be like to catch a tasty drop of honey on your finger?
Honey Still Life, Brenda Barrett Lovell, photograph, 2022. From the 2022 UVU Faculty Art Exhibition
Taking inspiration from Brenda’s photo, this art project focuses on “drip art” and the subject will be of your choice. You can use any medium for this effect, but this time we will be using acrylic paint to make drips on our paper. Just like Brenda, we want to create movement and reaction. For further inspiration, we encourage you to explore the work of other artists like Norman Bluhm, John Hoyland, and Janet Sobel. Janet Sobel was the pioneer of drip painting.
Explore this method of dripping paint to create movement in still life!
Explore this method of dripping paint to create movement in still life!
Materials:
● Pencil and eraser
● Sketchbook or paper to practice your technique
● Drawing media of your choice (color pencils, markers, etc.)
● Acrylic paint for dripping
● White paper, white cardstock, or art journal for your final product
● Any tool you want to use for dripping (turkey baster, eye dropper, paint brush, stick, etc.)
● Paper cup or bowl hold paint
● Water
● Plastic spoon or stick to stir
Directions:
● Choose your subject. It can be food or any image you can warp by creating wavy lines.
● Sketch your subject with your pencil with your pencil on sketch paper or sketch book.
● When you are satisfied with what you have sketched, draw your final design on your paper, cardstock, or art journal.
● Add a little water to your acrylic paint in your paper cup or bowl. Stir to combine.
● Practice dripping paint with the tools you chose. Try different drip marks to see which one you like the most.
● Drip your diluted acrylic paint over your design to give it movement and life.
Be creative and have fun!
● Pencil and eraser
● Sketchbook or paper to practice your technique
● Drawing media of your choice (color pencils, markers, etc.)
● Acrylic paint for dripping
● White paper, white cardstock, or art journal for your final product
● Any tool you want to use for dripping (turkey baster, eye dropper, paint brush, stick, etc.)
● Paper cup or bowl hold paint
● Water
● Plastic spoon or stick to stir
Directions:
● Choose your subject. It can be food or any image you can warp by creating wavy lines.
● Sketch your subject with your pencil with your pencil on sketch paper or sketch book.
● When you are satisfied with what you have sketched, draw your final design on your paper, cardstock, or art journal.
● Add a little water to your acrylic paint in your paper cup or bowl. Stir to combine.
● Practice dripping paint with the tools you chose. Try different drip marks to see which one you like the most.
● Drip your diluted acrylic paint over your design to give it movement and life.
Be creative and have fun!