As a painter, I’m very interested in the painting process. <\/p>\n
Painting is what I do, and I have to go through a painting process to get the finished painting. Whole movements and styles of painting have been dedicated to the process of painting. As much as I love abstract expressionism, I really, really don’t like the term “process painting”. I don’t walk into a gallery to see the verb form of painting; I’m after nouns. I want to see a well-executed finished piece.<\/p>\n
Eventually, I will post a rant about my dislike of the phrase “process painting”, but this is no that occasion. On this occasion, I will be talking about what I think is a much better way of capturing and exhibiting the process of painting. I will be talking about video.
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I’ve been a part of the YouTube community since 2006, and one thing I’ve shown a couple of times is footage of myself creating paintings.<\/p>\n
It started while I was living overseas. While I was in Korea, I was posting videos on a weekly basis. Most of the time I was making videos about eating weird foods or travelling, but I also made a few videos showing how I go about the painting process.<\/p>\n
I really enjoyed the experience of filming myself paint.<\/p>\n
To be honest, after posting over 175 videos, I kind of forgot about many of them. I ‘re-discovered’ these videos last night, as I was posting a timelapse sequence of myself at work in the studio.<\/p>\n
For the most part, my YouTube channel is used as a dump for my video content. I upload everything to the one channel and leave it to the search engines to do the sorting.<\/p>\n
So, I’ve pulled back the curtain for you, revealing the mystery of what goes on in an artists studio. <\/p>\n