The title of this week’s blog is a little misleading. I’ve not received inspiration for a new painting or even improving my latest work in progress. Instead, I’ve been inspired to do something cool with the pictures I’ve taken of my paintings.
The organized teacher in me has been taken pictures at every stage of working on the accompanying paintings that go with The Adventures of Infinity and Negativa. Last night, I attended a gallery opening that had some innovative photography. Yet, the work that mesmerized me was the short video, which incorporated one of the artist’s photographs.
The video played on a loop. I watched several cycles and listened to other audience members debate as to whether it was just one rendition of the video or two different ones on loop. The only thing that I kept thinking was that I could do a far less complicated video for each painting, showing it from start to finish.
I originally wanted to publish the individual stills, but a video seems so much more interesting, especially if each one takes no longer than about 30 seconds. After all is said and done, I’m going to have about 24 of them. That’s going to be a 12 minute commitment of watching the making of the series.
Of course, I’m not daring to attempt this until I have quit one of my three jobs. I certainly know which one that’ll be!