JACKSON POLLOCK / MORRIS LOUIS INSPIRED

 As my son Zach and his new bride Nicole moved into their first family home recently

in the San Fernando Valley,

a little 1950's bungalow that has been remodeled;

they wanted to celebrate their first night with family and friends by throwing a painting party.

Brave kids!

Nicole had found a video on this super fun painting technique where everyone is successful,

sort of,

 unless you accidentally drop it upside down on the cement

which of course did happen.

No names.

Ha ha

We mixed up standard tube acrylic paints into cups,

thinning each color with water and 2 magic sauces.

One is called Floetrol to help paint flow wildly,

the other is Silicone to create the cool looking cells.

  And you never know what you are going to get.

Then each person got a cup and filled it with their color choices,

placed the canvas upside down a top the cup,

then turned the entire thing upside down again,

lifted up cup then started tilting canvas this way and that letting the paint do it's thing.

There was a lot of oohhing and ahhing,

 screaming and encouraging going on as each person took their turn.

Zach's piece reminded us of a wave above.

But man oh man did we make a mess with a lot of dripping going on,

and the clean up was horrific but so worth the results and fun.

Everyone loved someone else's more then their own and we just couldn't decide on a favorite.

Nicole's above received my son's vote for favorite.

Ahhh,

that's my sweet boy!

LOVE rules!

But mine was this one above made by both Nicole's parentals,

Nick and Mary.

Loved the color choices,

red, green, yellow and white

 and how they mixed and worked their way across the canvas.

This last one was my creation.

I limited my paint colors to a monochromatic scheme with silvers and golds as accents.

I wouldn't advise doing this with young children because of the mess

 and because acrylic doesn't wash out of anything, 

including fingernails, sidewalk cement and clothes.

But boy oh boy did we have fun and some great laughs!