Father's Day Painting: Jackson Pollock Style

My daughter and I created a painting for "Daddy" for Father's day.  He said that he wanted a Jackson Pollock painting and I said we could create one.  Currently Pollock's Painting: "No. 5" stands as the second highest price paid for a painting: $140 million so there is no way we could afford that.  I thought this would be easy, but for it to really look authentic we had to keep working at it.  Pollocks' paintings have a a lot of passion in them.  They are considered "action paintings" and they require that you put a lot of energy into them.  Most people see them as a bunch of splatters, but if you really take a close look you can see the work put into them. With the painting experience I've had, and by trying to create a Pollock, I realize there is a lot more to these paintings.  By the way, my husband absolutely loved his painting! Here is our finished painting:

To create a Pollock we gathered:

A pre-stretcehd canvas

acrylic paints

brushes

sticks

sand

containers

Here is a short video with insight from Jackson Pollock himself of how he painted:

We began painting. We put the canvas on the ground like Jackson Pollock and circled around the painting like it said in the video above. We tried painting with sticks too because Pollock said he preferred those to brushes.

The paint was a little too splattery, (if that is even a word) so we added a little water.  Jackson said he liked a more liquid fluid paint and sometimes liked to even pour the paint on so we tried some of that too. You could use an acrylic medium to make the paint more fluid, but we didn't have any....so water seemed to work.

At first the painting looked like this and I wasn't too happy.  I wanted a little more fluidness in the painting (not just drips) and other colors.

So we added some orange paint and that seemed to have helped.  Some of you probably have know idea what I am talking about....it is just splatters, right?

Here we added more fluid white and really started throwing it around.   It is really quite beautiful....all the layers of paint piled on top of each other.

Here is a close up of all all those paint layers and splatters. I think the more you layer the paint the better.

Here is the true measure of success: paint all over me! The only place paint wasn't... was on my head!

We both had paint all over our feet and are still finding paint on our toe nails!

Here is the finished painting again with more white paint action strokes added in.

Here is, "No. 5",  Jackson Pollock's $140 million dollar painting.

Do you think our Jackson Pollock style painting was successful?

Daddy truly loooves his painting and it is already proudly hanging up in our house and he has requested to have his painting framed! Wow!