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Making notes as I read through the chapter 4 of Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education. 

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This is where I learned about the Assemblage Theory, paint’s characteristics, the sounds it makes, different forms of it.

This chapter also focuses on how children should be taught to be present and open to what happens as they play with different materials, rather than continuing the traditional method of controlling children to reach a specific outcome.

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Some paper, paint, paint brush, water cup, tissue paper and a color palette.

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Pelo (2016) explains that the best way a child interacts with a medium is by knowing how to have their workspace ready for what they are going to do. In this context, what is needed for painting?

Also, Assemblage theory could be related where paint brushes, paint, paper, water, color mixing pallets, tables as well as humans come together which is called as an assemblage.

Assemblage theory is further explained mentioning how there is no fixed role for the person who is painting as every move they make is never pre-planned. In this case, paint is not a tool, but rather another participant that has so many characteristics such as its viscosity, ability to dry and solidify, smoothness, stickiness, how it can be mixed and transformed and something that leaves traces behind. (Pacini-Ketchabaw, Kind & Kocher,2016,p 46)

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I had no idea what I was going to do with paint, so I started exploring the color palette and painting different colors in order to see how it feels to paint with a paint brush and see how different colors react to mixing with water.

Then when I got to the color blue, paint spoke to me,

"Why don't you try your finger tips?".

I said, "Why not",

and I dipped my fingers in the paint and started keeping finger prints on the paper.

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This is when paint asked me, "What if you dipped your whole hand in me ?"

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This conversation made me dip my whole hand in paint. I "dabbed" with my hand and it instantly reminded me of my childhood where messy play like this was very often. The “thwap, thwap, thwap” sound it made when my hand full of paint and water hit the paper and the table, I enjoyed it so much which made me repeat it just for the sound.😄

My friend was already playing with paint next to me and I invited her to join and she is the one who put pink color in my orange – yellow mix dab painting.

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A poem from paint to me.

Some see me as chaos

But i leave traces as i please

Even if you control the brush

I come in every shape and form 🖌🎶

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It was mind-blowing to see how the paint dripped on its own time no matter how much I pushed.

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When i was hopelessly looking at my color palette, paint spoke to me and said,

"see the way i drip"

So i decided to turn the splash painting upside down to see what happens.

“See the way i drip down so peacefully on my own time, you have no control of me”, it said.

I felt like it was so true because I had no control over it even though i wanted it to drip to the speed i expected.

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The paint was speaking to me again,

“Swirl the brush and see how it works, try the blue color and see how waves work, just like the ocean”.

I started mixing different blue shades, swirling which created waves.

“Feel the peacefulness of it”, paint said.

The dark shades reminded me of the depth of the sea where the light blue reminded the shore. 🏖

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Pelo (2016) not only explains the importance of becoming intimate with materials but also about cleaning up after yourself. Even though the materials are better handled without a plan, cleaning up the mess you make should be pre-planned and definitely done so that the next people after us can enjoy as much as we did.

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Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Kind, S., & Kocher, L. L. M. (2016). Encounters with materials in early childhood education. Routledge.

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/vu/reader.action?docID=4649662&ppg=60

Pelo, A. (2016). Clay. The language of art: Inquiry-based studio practices in early childhood settings (pp. 92–114). Redleaf Press. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/vu/reader.action?docID=4674378&ppg=2