Friday, May 2, 2014

When Life Becomes Art


Starry Night
Vincent Van Gogh


Last week, this experiment was circulating on Facebook and Bekah wanted to try it. She poured some half-and-half into a dish, and put several drops of food coloring around the edge. Then she soaked a Q-tip in dish soap and dipped it into the cream. Pretty cool!




And then THIS happened !



Someone exclaimed, "Starry Night!" 

Don't you think?


I love when a science experiment takes an artistic turn!

17 comments:

  1. Pretty neat! It does look so similar!

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  2. Science and art make great connections.

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  3. Yes, I do see it! Poor Vincent. If he'd only known, he could have saved himself a lot of time - and probably money on paint.

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  4. So cool! We did a similar but far less dramatic experiment at that age. We used oil? black pepper and the dish soap.
    Bekah's experiment was definitely WAY better.

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  5. Wow!! This is absolutely so cool!!
    Thanks for sharing.

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  6. That is WAY cool!!! Love doing stuff like this!!

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  7. Gavin found a similar experiment in a book a few weeks ago and we tried it. And like most science experiments that we try, it failed. We gave it 2 attempts and were very disappointed. I'll have to show this to Gavin.

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  8. Kristin, as you know, 99% of the science experiments I have ever done have been failures, even the "no fail" ones, sp I was particularly impressed with this one! We'll do it next Sunday! :)

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  9. Very similar indeed. Looks like fun and what happens next? Does fabric get laid across it for a transfer or is that the end?

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  10. I love it. And isn't it just like life...a bowl of cream (good stuff) with dish soap (the bitter not-so-good) = something beautiful, even artistic but the Great Artist Himself. :D

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  11. I did this experiment with my granddaughter this weekend and she liked it so much she wanted to do it again. Fun and easy!
    Blessings, Sharon D.

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