I first stumbled upon Marc Allante’s work when I was browsing through the Huffington Post. His bold use of color against subdued backgrounds inspired me to re-create his work for an assignment on, you guessed it, paintings inspired by professional artists! Though I appreciate Allante’s subdued backgrounds, I wanted to create something a little bit more upbeat and playful (like myself) so I decided to use multiple colors for the background. Allante’s original painting. After applying two coats of gesso, I layed out 5 strips of tape along the length of the canvas to create six different color sections (magenta, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet). Then, I mixed each acrylic paint with a LOT of water, to make a wash, painted each section, and left it to dry. I wanted to make deliberate paint drips, instead of random splatters, so I dipped my brush in a bit of paint and then quickly dunked the brush in water so that the paint would carry across the canvas. If the paint stopped dripping halfway down the …