Pendulum Painting!

I'm painting again, which is pretty big for me. I've always been into art and spent tons of time drawing and painting in high school and college, but unfortunately once I entered into the real world and had to get a full time job (which has actually ended up being a full-and-a-half time job), I've stopped making art.

But, last weekend my brilliant husband had a really good idea inspired by some art he had  recently seen. His creativity combined with his engineering skills led to a giant 6 foot home-made pendulum taking over the space in our living room last weekend. We then created a crazy, ingenious contraption to suspend from the pendulum base, filled it with different paint colors, and purchased some large canvases. As most of last weekend was filled with designing and building the pendulum as well as purchasing supplies from Michael's, we did not get to do much painting. But, we did a few test canvases. (photos below). Fabulous, no? I can't wait to try it out on some of the larger canvases, and I have a few really great ideas for future works. Fun times!