Painting Kit Fun

Completed Paint Kit by 9 members of the family. 4 tiles per person, each with their unique color selection of three colors.

Collaborative painting happening!

The morning after the paint party- Completed paint kit and table art. Linnea is tuckered out from all the fun.

For my birthday, family came over for dinner and humored me by helping make a collective shared work of art. Excited to try out the newly unboxed painting kit, I invited folks to join me in my studio to test out the concept.

They had the instructions to pick three colors for their four tiles, one light tone, one medium tone, and one dark tone. I showed them the original painting which inspired this kit as well as the mobile that had the pattern in common. On my makeshift studio table I shared sharpies, paint pens and paint.

As we worked together for the next hour, colors and shapes emerged. This set the tiles were picked at random, so the final color combinations were distributed across the final work. It was so cool to make something with my nieces and nephews. Some of them took to doodling on the studio table. Their creativity unleashed, took another form in parallel to the collective art project. I asked my nephew if he wanted paper to draw upon and he said no, and smiled with a grin, happy to leave something more permanent in my studio space.

The paint kit fit nicely in an envelope to travel back to AZ with my brother's family and my sister's family kept their tiles. The kits are a "friendship" bracelet, able to stand independently on its own as half a composition, rearranged in many different ways, or bring back together in one composition with both halves reunited.

Three of the tiles remain in my studio, on loan from Gordon, a reminder of the wider set of cards bringing color to each family's home. As these are purely color studies, it seems fitting that they rest on the frame of a color poster as a shelf.