Happy accidents

Things got all Dada/Surreal here last night. We dipped rubber bands and cut up cloth and string into paint and dropped them onto paper to create "happy accident" paintings a la Marcel Duchamp.* We enjoyed lines and organic shapes for their random nature.

See how beautifully mine turned out?
My husband took a more smudgy/smacky ribbon approach:
Declan's was a really delightful and delicate study in red lines, until a rogue bingo marker came along and pummeled the "land of happy accidents" with meteors way beyond recognition.
Thorough, no? He needed a bath afterwards because the splatter gave him quite the butcher look.

No one joined me for surrealism, part two. But they have enjoyed looking at it today.

I seem to be fighting against the magnetic pull of the television a lot lately.

* I wish I could take credit for this idea myself, but I got it from Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters.