Pink Alert

Mystery Painting Description

by Becky and Marina

Mystery Painting

recreated by our Walter Hays partners

Hold your paper vertically. On the left side paint a bright green line. It is not straight, and is about 5% of the paper. Then paint a very thin orange-red line. Next to that paint a very thin orange- yellow line which is about as wide as the green line. After that paint a thin light-blue line. The light-blue line and the orange-yellow line don't go all the way down because on the very bottom of the paper there is a green line about 3/4 of the paper. The rest of that bottom line on the right is red-orange. Both lines are about as thick as the first green line.

All up the right side of the paper paint a red line. On the top there is no line. Paint the left bottom quarter of the paper green and yellow mixed together, but not fully. Then paint the right bottom corner purplish-brown, mostly purple. Paint the right top corner purplish-brownish-pinkish. It is more pink towards the middle. On the top left hand quarter, right next to the lines, there is a little bit of green and orange. In the picture, except for the lines, it is kind of fuzzy. When you are done, you will have a sunset feeling.

Our picture was painted by Jules Olitski in 1966. The painting's name is "Pink Alert." It is 113 inches high. This painting is now hanging in the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC.

Analysis

by Becky and Marina

We think we described the colors in our picture well because our partners did that part right. We also think that we described the lines well because they put them in the right places.

We should have said exactly where the green line is on the left side. We also should have said not to leave any white in the picture, and that the colors were dull, not bright.

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