'Splosions!

On one of my late night channel-hopping 'adventures' many years ago, I stumbled upon what I considered at the time to be equal parts absurd, and awesome. An artist, whose name has now descended into the nether regions of my mind and as such will never be remembered by myself, was growing a reputation for his artwork .. but not of the usual type.

He threw darts at paint-filled balloons, with the subsequent explosion creating a layered effect on the canvas which was creating ripples in the art community at the time.

The practice canvas

I've always admired people with the creativity to think outside the box in that kind of way, maybe partly due to the fact that Art and myself have never been the best of friends; or at least conventional art. From that moment on, it's always been (a farway) goal of mine to do something similar. The 'bucket-list', however, has provided me with the perfect opportuniuty to get messy and get my art on!

Heading on over to a close friend's house who had been mass interested in the whole idea, we quickly set about creating the masterpiece I now call explosion art. 

It proved much harder than we originally thought, especially trying to get some serious pressure into the balloons to blow them up with the paint still inside them. I may have tried to blow a balloon up, and then attempt to put the paint inside .. those who actually can understand the only logical conclusion to what happened will understand how I got paint all over my face hahaha.

That said, despite how hard it was initally we did complete what we set out to do! Rather than exploding, the balloons decided to 'bleed' over the canvas which made it eventually look like fireworks had exploded over the canvas. It ended up being great fun, firstly actually getting the dart to pierce the balloon seemed like a massive achievement; which then led to the spraying of paint everywhere

After we'd created what can only be described as a masterpiece of modern art (with an extremely loose definition of masterpiece being used) we decided to get our hand's properly dirty and indulge in a bit of finger painting .. with the canvas being each others faces :)

        

1. Play Laser Tag in a Suit
2. Play in my Church's Worship Band. 
3. Go on a spontaneous roadtrip
4. Watch the sunrise from the top of a mountain. 
5. Throw Darts at Paint-filled balloons.