Materials:
- paper plates with a wax coating
- paint brush
- watercolor paints
- watercolor paper
- water
Instructions:
- Begin by applying watercolors of your choice to the paper plate.
- Add some water and mix the colors to your liking.
- Apply the paint to the watercolor paper with the paint brush.
- Return to the pallet to pick up more paint (repeat as desired).
- Add more paint and water as needed until it's determined the painting is complete.
- Let the paper plate dry.
- Collect paper plates from various painting sessions.
- Plates can also be revisited as needed at a late date.
I have a watercolor class this semester, and thought a relic of my paintings would be interesting. The paper pallets were saved up during the duration of this semester. Sometime I would revisit old paper pallets if I mixed an interesting color or if I didn't feel like mixing new colors (an attempt to be less wasteful as well as frugal). The plates read from left to right, with the pallet on the top left being the newest and the one on the bottom right being the oldest. As the pallets age, the colors tend to blur together more.
There really wasn't too much to document, as the pallets changed slowly over the course of a painting session. The movements of the painter are also not important, as many painting methods would result in similar paper pallets. Factors that change the look of the pallets are how long the pallet is worked, how thoroughly the colors are mixed, how much water is added, and how many different colors are used.
This assignment was easy, but also interesting. The idea of the process as the artwork, and not the painting itself, was an interesting concept. I also enjoyed looking at the "evidence" of all the painting I've done this semester. It's interesting to think about what is considered art, and if the process of making art is also art.
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