(photo:Kate Milford)Last weekend I had the great opportunity to help kids and their families make abstract paintings using wheelchairs, strollers and other wheeled things at a workshop organized by Eliza Factor of Extreme Kids and Crew in Brooklyn. About a year or so ago I worked out this way of doing a multiple pass mono-prints using a skateboard for workshops I conducted at the Artisphere in Arlington, VA (in conjunction with the exhibition, Skateboarding Side Effects curated by Cynthia Connolly, with the workshop programing by Lisa-Marie Thalhammer). The simple process involves rolling out house paint onto a plastic covered floor, then placing paper or canvas on top of it, finally rolling around on the back of the paper. When you lift the paper, an impression is left from the weight of the wheels, making sometimes beautiful calligraphic images.
This is one from the Artisphere Workshop done by skateboarding on the paper.
This is me and my friend Susie who visited me, giving the wheelchair a try for the first time(Artisphere photos: Sarah Flynn).
another skateboard one.
