Balls and Balloons.

For this painting I used small bouncy balls and balloons. The ball were bounced across the support after being covered in blue, red and finally yellow acrylic paint. When this part of the painting was complete the two balloons were bounced repeatedly onto the painting, this mixed the paints on the support and created texture and drama to the marks made by the balls. An unexpected outcome was that the balloons became decorated with interesting random patterns.

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I did think about whether I could use the balloons in the final painting and in a version of the final work I attached them to the painting.

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The effect of the paint on the balloons.

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Below are two are the two versions of the painting, with and without balloons. I think that similar to the other painting in these two experiments the resultant painting has a party feeling. Whether this is a inferred connection due to the used of the balloons or how they have effected the painting in unclear to me.

• Part 1 - Painting and / as performance