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Video of In Your Image being
painted
Return to the painting In_Your_Image This time-lapse video shows the Florentine method which was used to paint this image. As with all my paintings, this one began from a concept sketch. I then used the sketch to shoot and locate source photos. I didn't have a baboon handy so I found dozens of baboon images on the web. To improvise, a stuffed monkey won from a county fair was used for the original photo shoot. I posed for the painting using a self timer - it's not supposed to be a self portrait, I just needed a figure and I was the only one available. I used photoshop to composite all the images into an approximation of what the painting would eventually look like. In the video you will periodically see me holding some of my source images. The underpainting begins in verdaccio green - gray - however I used umbers for the sky underpainting because I like the way the purples work with the warm browns. Color follows the underpainted "map" with varying layers of colored paint. Some layers like the baboons fur are thick and opaque and some layers are very transparent oil glazes - such as the blue shirt. The verdaccio underpainting provides an exceptional foundation for the colored layers that follow and it provides the painting with a unique quality of depth - exactly like paintings you see in museums. The Florentine method of painting evolved over time and is really a very refined method of creating beautiful paintings. This process is labor intensive but the results are unparalleled.
The video camera is shooting one
frame every minute and there are 30 frames in one second of video. In
other words, every second you see represents 30 minutes of work. The
video was originally longer. It has been edited for size and time
considerations. But you are watching approximately 60 hours of a
painting which took over 1 month to execute. The full process includes
conceptualization, sketches, collecting and photographing source
material, compositing and resketching, preparing the canvas, drawing
the image on the canvas, underpainting in verdaccio, overpainting in
color, glazing and detailing. The details were not video taped because
you would see little change over the course of 2 weeks (another 2.5
minutes of video).
More about the painting In_Your_Image
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| The man and baboon look into each other’s eyes pondering their existence and origins as this painting plays with misinterpretations made about the theories of evolution. Although it is often implied, Darwin’s theories did not state that humans evolved from apes. In this image, the man, thinking of himself as superior, sits at a table in the middle of a wasteland that he is responsible for creating. The baboon exhibits an evolved level of sophistication as he raises his martini. Which animal is truly superior? The “brothers” toast “to evolution” while the life-force energy from the heavens (that runs through all living things) electrifies the hi-tech halos blatantly sitting on the heads of the two subjects. The man and baboon look into each other’s eyes pondering their existence and origins as this painting plays with misinterpretations made about the theories of evolution. Although it is often implied, Darwin’s theories did not state that humans evolved from apes. In this image, the man, thinking of himself as superior, sits at a table in the middle of a wasteland that he is responsible for creating. The baboon exhibits an evolved level of sophistication as he raises his martini. Which animal is truly superior? The “brothers” toast “to evolution” while the life-force energy from the heavens (that runs through all living things) electrifies the hi-tech halos blatantly sitting on the heads of the two subjects. |