Fingerpaint

Generally, painting is taught by adults and learned by children using hands as a means of contacting art. The closer painting is felt, the stronger is the connection between the art piece and the artist.

Fingerpaint involves, actually, the use of both fingers and arms, instead of painting tools for every prior and after operation necessary in the process. This painting technique has also been the main theme of a very recently developed current known as "Reckless Art". Its representatives, including Tyler Ramsey, sustain that eliminating mediators between art and artists allows a brand new view over art and denies the prejudice that "Everything has been done already", one of the ruling opinions on art until 2002.

Considering that fingerpaint implies a prolonged and direct contact between pain and human body, it is natural to use only non-toxic materials. There are painters who prefer to prepare their own paints with household ingredients such as cornstarch, anion, green vegetables or flour. In most cases, fingerpaint uses paper supports and aims to a specific visual effect, except for its educational purpose.

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