Time-Lapse Acrylic Painting - "Center of Gravity"
I started working on this painting on January 22nd 2007 and it remains incomplete. These time-lapse animations log my progress across 4 days of painting. First I used a webcam to capture pictures from time to time through-out working on the painting. This technique allows me to take a new picture at uneven intervals as I choose during painting. The downside is that doing it this way can be distracting, because it pulls me out of the painting experience in order to remember to capture a new frame for the time-lapse. The upside is that I am removed from the image and the painting appears to paint itself.
This is the first abstract painting I've worked on by drawing the composition out in detailed pencil lines before I begin painting it. I usually begin a painting by selecting a certain palette of colors and make up the shapes and composition as I go.
For the second through the fourth clips of this series, I used a digital camera on a tripod to capture frames through the Canon Camera Window software that came with my camera. This second technique creates images regular intervals regardless of my attention to the computer, so I show up in the frame, and you can see me jut around the video as the painting matures. The second clip features the music of Muse - Starlight
The third clip shows a great deal of progress and runs for nearly 2 minutes.
The fourth clip shows the progress up until now and also runs for nearly 2 minutes. This clip features music by Beck - Halo of Gold.
I intend to complete this painting and will continue to log my progress with time-lapse footage. Then I will collapse all the smaller videos to one final video and it will be up for sale with a similar dvd package that shows the footage at a much higher quality.
