Some artists are naturally very focused on 

the sensory aspect of art making. This young artist 

often becomes a bit mesmerized with more fluid

materials such as wet clay and paint.

This week, after enjoying the sensation of smooth red clay on her hands as she built an elephant pinch pot, she moved on to paint exclaiming, "This is going to be a finger painting!"


 She started making individual fingerprints all over the paper. Unlike the previous week's painting, in which she smoothly smeared paint together to create her painting, this time she uniformly touched just the tips of her fingers,
creating a stippling effect (stippling is the creation of a pattern simulating shading by using small dots).

 

At the end of class, she shared with the other artists the inspiration for this piece. She explained that she had seen in a gallery a very large portrait of a woman that the artist created using only his fingerprints.

 

Making the connection between her method of working with materials
and how this artist created the portrait, she applied her
knowledge of the art world to her own creative process.

In the studio, we love to see these connections to the art world and
watch as young artists progress with their individual styles!

(Chuck Close, Georgia Fingerprint 1)