Mindful Art

Last week we made some “Mindful Art” pictures at Craftmates Club.  Basically you take dilute acrylic paint and pour it over canvas.  You use various techniques to mix it so that it creates a lovely marbled effect for the background, and then tip it gently so that it covers the whole sheet.

Then you make a new design on top of it by pouring and blobbing more paint.  The important thing at this stage is not to add too much more paint or mess around with it too much, or you end up with a big beige splodge.  A cautionary tale – when I was at primary school we had to make a post box out of cardboard loo roll tubes and then paint it.  To this end we were supplied with poster paint colours one of which was “pillar box red”.  So I used this to paint my box – but there was still 20 minutes left and I was bored – so I thought “I can make this even redder by adding a touch of black.  But then it was too dark, so I added some white.  And then it was too…..”.  Well you see where that went – I ended up with England’s only pale violet pillar box.

But my mindful picture turned out alright.  Can you see what it is yet?

I have another one of a sunset, and the lady who ran the class has made me a pendant necklace from some of the run off paint.  I am picking them up tomorrow.

I am not sure how mindful this all was, because as usual we were all talking the whole time – but it was great fun.