Home Resource had their annual spring cleaning recently, in which they give away house paint, doors, windows and all other sorts of DIY fix-it goodness. I picked up several gallons of latex house paint with the intention of experimenting in a new medium. It was a rainy day, so I threw all of the paint into the trunk of my car and forgot about it for a few days.

The sun comes out, and I head to my garage to stretch some canvas. Then I remember the paint, so I pull my car around to the garage to unload it. A partially full gallon of “Bistro Yellow” had leaked onto a tarp I have in the back.

No paint got in the car itself, so that’s good.Then it struck me to use the wet paint to paint print on a canvas. I pushed it onto the canvas in random patterns, then left it to dry, as I had other places to be.

I had placed the can on top of some cut glass that was sitting on an old chair. I thought the paint had just spilled from a not-tightly-sealed lid. When I went out into the garage a couple of days later, I discovered that this was not the case, and that there was a hole in the bottom of the can, because it leaked all over the glass and the chair.

Of course, I decided to make impressions on the canvas using the glass with the wet paint on it.

I also peeled away the paint itself, and found that it too was wet underneath, so I used the paint itself as a way to make prints of the wet paint.

I started two different canvases, and neither are finished. It’s fun experimenting an playing, and I’ve needed to do something different for a while, so this could turn into something cool.

With the above canvas, because it’s not treated with Gesso, I’m thinking I’ll soak it with water before applying a wash to it, so that the yellow stands out from the wash and is not covered by it.

I’m not sure what I’ll do with this one, but I know that it isn’t finished.