Today, the Owls took the Rorschach into a new direction. We have been mastering the process of creating this type of art, so we tried in on a larger scale. A large piece of watercolor paper was placed in the center of a table, and a group of friends worked together to make a Rorschach print. We talked about working as a group to add just enough dabs, lines, and blobs of paint, but how to be aware that we don't want too much paint to make a "heavy" paper. They used collaborative efforts to fold and unfold the paper, and developed a rhythm of making sure that each friend was satisfied with the amount of paint they added before they folded the paper to update the print. Together they decided that their piece was done, and the end result is a beautiful butterfly Rorschach.
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| Mimi: "I made an 'E' for Elise!" |
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| The end result |
We also made smaller individual Rorschach pieces and experimented with transferring them to blank pieces of paper to actually create prints. In doing this process, you remove a lot of the extra paint that can be overflowing off the page and beautiful textures are created from the paint.
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| The original (left) and the print (right) |
We played the game Snail's Pace Race, a game that many are familiar with. We took away the individually competitive edge by asking all the players to work towards moving all the snails across the board together; in this way, everyone wins!
Other Owlings:
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| Sand-side jokes |
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| Counting... |
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| ...and counting... |
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| ...and counting! |
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| Crutches are for people who are hurt... |
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| ...and for people who like to have fun! |
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