Jackson couldn't have done it better himself
It's summer and the girls are home from school. It's also hurricane season, and our Plain Plywood window panels are just so boring in their Bland Brown state. Britt and her friend got busy.
Behold! the artists emerge!
Each balloon was filled with paint and water:
Sharp Paragraph:
The idea was throw darts to pop the balloons, but our darts were rubber tipped. We headed to the nearby Dollar Store to look for cheap, sharp instruments to throw, but they only had rubber tipped bow and arrows, rubber tipped pellet guns... you get the idea. There was not a sharp instrument in the STORE! Our laws are too strict! What happened to all the sharp, dangerous toys of our youth??!
So we came home, and after I ruled out using steak knives, the girls settled for using ordinary pins. Definitely not as much fun. Next time, we'll head to Sports Authority and buy some decent sharp tipped darts.
Not to be deterred, they popped all the balloons and began just squirting the wood with the paint itself.
Is it not just so reminiscent of Jackson Pollock? Our next set of plywood panels will be painted with various Florida sea side themes; and soon, we'll have the best decorated plywood panel house during hurricane season.
This should make our house easy to spot from the air in a helicopter if we ever need help. ;)
Brilliant! And yes, if you could copy Pollock's signature and slip this into an auction, I betcha you'd end up with enough to cover the house with a plexiglas dome every time a hurricane came along!
Posted by: Nils | June 21, 2006 at 08:30 AM
Nils, I was actually thinking of ebay. I'm almost sure there's a relgious face buried emerged somewhere in that plywood. I'm getting awfully tired of having them pop toast every morning to check for faces....
Posted by: Laura | June 21, 2006 at 08:38 AM
Excellent! Wonderful! A clever idea and a good chance for the girls to be creative. You must be the best mom ever!
Posted by: Pablo | June 21, 2006 at 08:42 AM
That is WAY too cool!! :D
Posted by: pam | June 21, 2006 at 08:53 AM
Wow! Talk about creativity! This is great and what a wonderful project for the girls. You'll be the envy of your neighborhood during hurricane season. Makes the rest of us look so bland.
Posted by: Terri | June 21, 2006 at 09:04 AM
However, this does NOT make me wish we had hurricanes in the Midwest so I could have these nice window panels.
Posted by: Pablo | June 21, 2006 at 10:24 AM
Next time you come I will have paint ready so Brit can paint our boards. Pretty pictures, please.
Posted by: mom | June 21, 2006 at 10:41 AM
Come on Pablo, live dangerously! ;) (j/k)
The Midwest seems to get a lot of flood and tornado activity, if I'm not mistaken. Scary stuff!
Pam and Terri, thanks! I just hope we make it through the season without actually having to use them, Lol.
Mom, if Kevin has any leftover paints, send it over and we'll use it on the boards when we come back over there!
Posted by: Laura | June 21, 2006 at 01:43 PM
Hehe.
We had so much fun doing that.
And there's one mistake you made in the writing=]
We only filled the balloons with paint and air.
There was NO water involved=D
Hehe.
Posted by: Britt | June 21, 2006 at 01:48 PM
P.S.
Good picture taking=D
Posted by: Britt | June 21, 2006 at 01:50 PM
So, what is the top bid?
Posted by: Old Horsetail Snake | June 21, 2006 at 03:09 PM
How very cool! Now I'll be able to look for your house on the news!
Posted by: InterstellarLass | June 21, 2006 at 05:02 PM
Wonderful! Okay- now I need to come down just to see these panels! Thede have such great mojo they will surely divert any really bad weather.
Keep posting subsequent panels, please.
Posted by: vicki | June 22, 2006 at 08:40 AM
SO Jackson Pollock!!!!!!!!! I love this idea! We used to paint Smiley/frowny faces on ours when we lived in Florida! :)
Posted by: Seamus | June 22, 2006 at 11:51 AM
That painting speaks to me. It says:
"Here are two creative normal kids having real fun outside and behind them are two parents who are doing the right stuff"
Posted by: FloridaCracker | June 23, 2006 at 04:05 PM