What is Big Wheel Action Painting? Action Painting is a style of painting where the paint is splashed, dripped, or smeared onto the canvas instead of being carefully applied with a brush. This method allows the artist to explore chance, spontaneity, and control. Big Wheel Action Painting during ARToberfest at Hutchinson Center for the Arts adds just one more element to this style of painting. A Machine. A Big Wheel; and for those of us a …