Response:

The main message I get from this painting is that it involves a lot of movement to create. I also notice that there is a distinct layering of the colors: the yellow paint seems to be the base with the black lines making up the very top layer. This suggests to me order, even though the lines themselves appear very chaotic.

Product:

In order to recreate Pollock’s work, I used a Wacom tablet and Photoshop. I actually ended up attempting the recreation twice within the hour because I didn’t feel that I was capturing Pollock’s style. In both attempts I tried varying the brush style, but in the end I still don’t feel that I was successful.

Since I could not figure out a way to recreate Pollock’s defining style, I chose to focus on other aspects of his work in my recreation. First, the obvious: I used the same color palette and the same wild motions to draw lines on the tablet. Pollock’s process involves him walking around his canvas, and I chose to imitate that by occasionally rotating the tablet so that no one direction was the top. Furthermore, I imitated the layers of colors in Pollock’s work. That is, once I finished with one color, I didn’t go back to using a previously used color. Finally, since Pollock’s work was driven by emotion, I attempted to amplify my emotions by listening to music while I was working on part of the first and the second attempt.