What is Spin Art?

Spin Art is the creating of abstract paintings using a specially designed Spin Art Machine.

When my son Matt was small, I was able to purchase the Spin Art Machine from a neighborhood toy store and we would produce our own works of art all the time ! 

You can find Spin Art at craft fairs, or at kid’s birthday parties where the equipment is usually rented.    

A piece of A4 artist board is placed on the platform inside the Spin Art Machine (a huge spinning centrifuge).  

The lid is locked down by the attendant and the machine is turned on.

As the paper is spinning inside the machine, the artist can use the range of  brilliantly coloured quick-drying non-toxic acrylic paints to produce their work of art. 

By using different techniques of applying the paint you can achieve vastly different designs.

Different effects can be achieved by dripping, squirting or pouring the paint onto the board. Colours will blend and your abstract will be unique. 

The attendant can stop the machine so you can view you artwork and restart the machine if you wish to add more colour. When the artist is happy with the abstract the attendant will remove the artwork and glitter may be added if you wish.

An attachment for Frisbee’s is also available. 

They can also turned into Retro Clocks by drilling the centre and inserting a clock.

They also make great presents !

deletereply belita747 wrote on Mar 29, ’08, edited on Mar 29, ’08 Very interesting. I have never seen anything like that! Congratulations for your creativity. http://belita747.multiply.com/journal/item/403/CreARTive_Sunday_Crystal_Candies

deletereply sanssouciblogs wrote on Mar 29, ’08 I remember these and we got one at some point, yes, lots of fun. If it was messy, I’ve repressed it. It’s almost like, well, flat pottery on a wheel. Um, a little far-fetched, maybe, 🙂

editdeletereply lauritasita wrote on Mar 29, ’08 It was cool !!! The kids would line up for blocks to do this. I’m glad I finally bought the machine !

deletereply philsgal7759 wrote on Mar 29, ’08 Kids love this stuff and it is fun for us too

editdeletereply lauritasita wrote on Mar 29, ’08 I used to do it with the kids and I think I loved it more than they did !

deletereply starfishred wrote on Mar 30, ’08 Oh laurita we used to have one of these and my girls loved it,must have my older daughter dig it out and show it to my grandson.Thanks wonderful tour.

deletereply skeezicks1957 wrote on Mar 30, ’08 I always thought it was fun to make the spin pictures when I was a kid too!

deletereply nemo4sun wrote on Mar 30, ’08 they used to have those at the school bizarre when i was a kid we always made one 🙂

editdeletereply lauritasita wrote on Mar 30, ’08 I was amazing when I found a place to buy it. I think it ran on “AA” batteries.

deletereply nemo4sun wrote on Mar 30, ’08 i had a clay wheel like that as a child it really didn’t spin enough to work bigger clay items we tried doing spin art on it but it didn’t have sides and paint went everywhere oops!

editdeletereply lauritasita wrote on Mar 30, ’08, edited on Mar 30, ’08 OMG,nemo what a mess it must’ve made, but that’s a price you pay for making art, LOL!!! but the kid’s machines did have a cover on top, so at least it minimized the mess.

deletereply nemo4sun wrote on Mar 30, ’08 it was almost as much fun as when my brother and i were making candles and the wax caught on fire and we panicked and through a glass of water on it and it all exploded and it was a good thing our parents loved us 🙂

editdeletereply lauritasita wrote on Mar 30, ’08 I was thinking of doing a blog on candle making, LOL!!! although I do collect scented candles, I never made any !

deletereply nemo4sun wrote on Mar 30, ’08 we had allot of fun with it one of my favorites had a base of a mrs. butterworth bottle all covered in wax with just her race showing 🙂

editdeletereply lauritasita wrote on Mar 30, ’08 How funny and creative !

deletereply nemo4sun wrote on Mar 30, ’08 oh yeah you take an interesting object and drip different color wax on it then build the new candle on top as it melts and drips it adds to the colors 🙂

editdeletereply lauritasita wrote on Mar 30, ’08 Maybe I’ll do a candle blog !

deletereply nemo4sun wrote on Mar 30, ’08 you should 🙂

deletereply fluffyj wrote on Mar 31, ’08 My kids tried this at our school picnic last summer with the Frisbees.  It was the first I had seen it done on Frisbees before.  This brings back so many memories of craft shows with my mom!  Great entry!

editdeletereply lauritasita wrote on Apr 1, ’08 Yeah, it must be fun to have as  Frisbees 1