While I had planned on doing a fresh bug drawing when I got home I'm tired and it's almost 9:30pm. I do not have the gas in the tank to both draw and post another art work so you guys get to see the cute craft I made at work.
At work we have what we call friendship club as one of the programs. During this time we encourage clients(kids who various difficulties. Some have autism, others ADHD, some have significant developmental delays.) to do some arts and crafts and interact with each other and develop friendships.
The art work I'm sharing is the result of salt painting. An activity I did along with my client. The first step of salt painting is to put down some glue in a pattern, or shape. Similar to how you'd do line work for a drawing. Then you dump salt on top, wait for the glue to dry and then shake the excess salt off.
The final step is to add colour using water with food colouring in it.(Though I suppose water colour paint would work. We use food colouring since there is always a chance a client decides to drink it.)
Anyway, here's the snail I made.
One of the neat things with this type of art is the utter lack of control over just how the colour spreads. I've done watercolour painting with brushes and there's a fair bit of control over what happens. Between how hard you brush, if you put the entire brush down, how heavy the brush is with water, there's a lot of ways to control the way the paint flows off the brush. With this, it was a dropper. The most control that could be had is with how much water dropped out.
All in all, despite it being very different from my usual artwork I'm actuly pretty pleased with this salty guy. Also yes I do see the irony of a snail rendered with salt given that snails and salt are a real bad mix. At least for the snail.
