Bridging the days

Today (Monday) ends where Sunday began: with Mark Chong

Early Sunday I came across this post (via the marvelous gorilla artfare, I believe), and was greatly inspired. I took my camera along on my walk intending to do my own photo referenced speed paintings, and finally got around to them tonight.

Exhausted from a long day of this-and-that, it was easy to follow Mark's "burred eyes" advice.


This one took 20 minutes. (Photo on the left, painting on the right, naturally). I don't think it was the best first choice for working on things like color picking and color blocking. It was a very high first hurdle, and even on things as basic as composition I made mistakes.


Second hurdle wasn't much better. Took 20 minutes on this one, too. I time myself with a randomized playlist that limits itself to less than 22 minutes, but the over/under is almost always within 10 seconds of exactly 20 minutes.
This photo isn't from my walk on Sunday, but almost all of the pictures I took then were terribly lame and poorly suited for this exercise. I think it comes from mid-July. Water is difficult but fun.


Sunday Sunset. This was such a good choice of photo to reference that I actually did only take 10 minutes on it, and it would've taken quite a different thought process to spend twice as much time on it.


I'm still pondering where this exercise fits in the scope of my art practice. It has the same feeling of fun as the pencil sketches of naked people I did last week. A little more hyped up and frantic, but I think that has more to do with my pushed-to-the-limit state of mind than the actual artsing. Suffice to say I look forward to pushing around more digital paint.