A quest for uniqueness: Painting with squirt guns

Hey guys!
I don't know about you, but this week has felt long, and has generally been a little rough. It has also been inordinately cold around here, so I have been inside 99.9% of the time. This afternoon was quite cold, windy and rainy. So what did I decide to do? I went outside and played with some quirt guns to make some unconventional abstract art.

First thing was to dress appropriately for the weather...

Yep, T-shirt, shorts, and rain boots. Why? Well, I guess because I can.

Next up, gather supplies.

I had this leftover paint which is terribly thin proved utterly useless for it's original project, but it worked well for what I did today. I used paper from the roll I purchased from Ikea a while ago. I used a roll of electrical tape (and duct tape) to secure the paper to the shed. I filled the tupperware up with water before taking it outside to avoid tracking mud in the house more than necessary. The squirt guns were purchased at our local grocery store 2 for 3 dollars. Can't pass up a deal like that!

Once I journeyed outside in the freezing-butt-cold weather I just roughly taped up the paper against the storage shed in our backyard. The paint is water based and washable, so I wasn't worried about stains, and thus I didn't mask anything off.

Now comes the fun part. Fill up the barrel of your squirt gun about 75% full of water, and fill the rest up with paint. Shake it up really well, and fire away! On my first go around with the blue I didn't use nearly enough paint, so the color is kinda faint.

For the second layer I used green paint, and I put in much more paint, so the second layer is much less transparent than the first.

I had fun seeing the different patterns I could make by pulling the trigger fast or slower, or shooting the paint in an arc, etc. While I was painting there was a little bit of rain, so I added more tape. The rain also made the paint run in different ways, which was cool.

I liked how it looked at this point, but I wanted a little more pizazz, so I kept going and mixed green and blue for a new blue, as you can see in the photo below.

I just kept on ~~fighting an invisible monster~~ painting until I couldn't really feel my fingers enough to take pictures. As you would expect, the more paint you add the more it runs, mixes, and blends.

When I started in on this project it was mostly for the fun of it. I will probably end up throwing away the papers unless they dry really flat and I can use them for another project I have in mind. I really love watching paint mix, so this activity was mostly to watch paint mix and swirl (and gather some photo evidence, of course), to be outside, and to relax a little than to have a tangible finished product. Mission accomplished.