Drip painting

[3] Drip painting found particular expression in the work of the mid-twentieth-century artists Janet Sobel—who pioneered the technique[4]—and Jackson Pollock.

He used unconventional tools like sticks, hardened brushes and even basting syringes[5] to create large and energetic abstract works.

Pollock used house or industrial paint to create his paintings—Pollock's wife Lee Krasner described his palette as "typically a can or two of … enamel, thinned to the point he wanted it, standing on the floor besides the rolled-out canvas" and that Pollock used Duco or Davoe and Reynolds brands of house paint.

The drip–splash marks made by mural painter David Alfaro Siqueiros allow him to work out his composition of a multitude of Mexican workers and heroes.

[8] Contemporary artists[clarification needed] who have used drip painting include Lynda Benglis,[9] Norman Bluhm,[10] Dan Christensen,[11] Ian Davenport,[12] Ronald Davis,[13] Rodney Graham,[14] John Hoyland,[15] Ronnie Landfield,[16] Zane Lewis,[17] Joan Mitchell,[18] Roxy Paine,[19] Larry Poons,[20] Pat Steir,[21] Andre Thomkins,[22] Zevs and Fred Friedrich.