Hey, let me drunkenly animate your photos in about 25 to 60 days!

it's really nice of you to take the time notice that, especially since the early versions of are hard to see in the animation! you're right, i was painting over an old canvas. i've been painting over a lot of my first paintings recently, which were all acrylic. it's fine to use oil on top of acrylics, but acrylics on oil doesn't work.

this was the old one, from a few years ago:

oops, submitted before i intended there.

https://i.imgur.com/Xw5aftd.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Ba0TzgZ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/mYpqAtP.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/5rSXMTU.jpg

originally i intended to keep the part of the original acrylic painting that i liked (the part on the right side of the first image, which i saw as a figure kind of being blown away from the target - it had something to do with my dad and being unable to penetrate or understand him, and also a lot to do with me being drunk too much at that time), but pretty soon it all got covered up. in that last image you can also see a bit of newspaper in the middle - there were two small puncture holes in the original canvas, so i thought i'd integrate newspaper into the oil repainting to cover it up. it didn't work (newspaper kept peeling off) so i ended up patching the hole with masking tape on the verso/back side of the canvas. anyway - a painting like this that takes forever and has so many reworkings always feels like a journey and you want to tell someone about what happened, so thank you for asking :)

what kinds of paintings are you doing so far? acrylic, oil? whose youtubes are you watching? and are you kind of working abstractly, or doing still lives, nature, figures? all at once? i love to talk painting and would love to see what you're making if you want to post them in this thread

I’m doing a bit of everything. I just wanna learn. I spent two weeks learning how to pore paint and making abstract shapes. I then got bored and started doing acrylic painting of flowers. Now I’ve got bored of that and feel like I need to find a third thing. I figure if I just keep going I’ll eventually find something that sticks.

YouTube just started with half remembering things my ex girlfriend did and finding instructional videos for them, like the paint pouring. She was an abstract painter still trying to pretend it was still the height of all those drunks in 50s New York. Then I’d let it recommend stuff and auto play and you would get more interesting stuff, like bbc4 documentaries about abstract painters talking about how they worked. It was more of a thing in the background that I was only half paying attention to, so I can’t actually remember any names of good videos to recommend

Absolutely love your newspaper story. There is so much to be learnt in experiments like that

She was an abstract painter still trying to pretend it was still the height of all those drunks in 50s New York. Then I’d let it recommend stuff and auto play and you would get more interesting stuff, like bbc4 documentaries about abstract painters talking about how they worked.

speaking of all this, if you haven't already run across Painters Painting, it's one of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrM39J6GLvU

Painters Painting yout00b link

I’ll check it out :)

https://i.imgur.com/iyoPUI2.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/cQlu5JE.jpg

the quality of the composition and figure outline jumped, which means i should mention this is a quick copy of michelangelo

his is just slightly better

https://i.imgur.com/yzEnZyR.jpg

it's because of the pepperoni

i keep not understanding my own joke, which means i should mention it was about TMNT

anyway, love michelangelo's hair and i'm going to start ripping it off

https://i.imgur.com/eDncp0R.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/j9dURmQ.jpg

corrs/a hoy hoy if you liked the last animation showing all the stages of the painting you might like the one for this. i took some steady pictures at each step and ended up doing a wipedown of most the canvas about halfway through there are some funny changes. gonna put it together tomorrow morning

https://i.imgur.com/PFWjymx.gif

gonna take a break from ilx for a while (again! but it's always a positive thing, and i always come back. i think this is my favorite painting. i feel really good. :)

https://i.imgur.com/k4SEab6.jpg

good vibes all over

interesting to see the layers coming on and off, who knows what palimpsests are hidden in the paintings I have at home

https://i.imgur.com/HnDE3mF.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/qm0EiwD.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ujVPtWr.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/QmUfFpw.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/LVA6Gx5.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/65wtKfF.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/X2NOrYu.jpg

oh, and i finally finished a large painting i posted versions of upthread:

https://i.imgur.com/Abz0Uyi.jpg

that tree makes me smile

great stuff as always

thank you so much corrs! and it's funny, a friend of mine i hadn't heard from in a long time ago said something similar about the tree - he said he was in a bad mood and it made him feel better. which makes me feel better, too. :)

Zach upon your return to ilx i almost bumped this thread myself just to see what you'd been up to. awesome as always.

oh that's so nice, thanks! fwiw i usually post most of my paintings on instagram (@zach_tbd)these days. sometimes i wonder whether it makes sense to post them here anymore (the redundancy of posting the same images in multiple online places, not wanting to exhaust anyone who has to see it more than once), but i feel an attachment to the thread for many sentimental reasons. i've gotten so much encouragement over the years on this thread and it's helped to get me through some hard times etc <3

enjoy when you update this thread so please keep doin it

you got it budo, thank you :)

energy radiating from those canvases

glad you feel that! <3

took a time out to make this version ("copy" feels not good and inaccurate) of cezanne's the bather (1885)

https://i.imgur.com/eYO04u2.jpg

it's hard to get the colors of oil with gouache, at least for me, but it was more fun to have a bunch of time to think about his composition and stuff like outlining

oops, forgot!

https://i.imgur.com/hatLnfy.jpg

callback to op

https://i.imgur.com/iCO9mwJ.gif

what are you doing version

https://i.imgur.com/FivQKkt.gif

soundtrack by Argent: 🎵 "Hold your head up! WOOOAH" 🎵

*power electronics plays outside*

https://i.imgur.com/vHAq447.jpg

not wanting to exhaust anyone who has to see it more than once

^that made me chuckle, z. god forefend anyone gives your art a second look!

ah, thanks but that was a self-loathing comment of mine, wish i hadn't said that! just the other day i was complaining about a friend of mine who always announces he's anything he's involved in with such an array of self-loathing apologies that by the time he's done it feels more like a charity of event in honor of the friend who feels bad for making it not good enough...etc etc. so much better to not bring that element in, but yet i do it all the time! (working on it though)

anyway thank you aimless <3

i am playing some music in a few hours, and this is the secret to everything i will do

https://i.imgur.com/hV13uGJ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/CCBvb3p.jpg

EXTREME CLOSEUP!!!

https://i.imgur.com/OyGF9Si.jpg

i really wish i could change the title of this thread but i think it would make it the 4th time i've asked. but i am not drunkenly or animating

and despite the title, not your photos

i would like to keep the Hey, though!

https://i.imgur.com/7uVGQAy.gif

still got it

https://i.imgur.com/MeSCBWF.jpg

thought i was done but ended up working on it a bit longer. as i was finishing up, a chess timer i ordered in the mail arrived. i'm going to start clocking in when i'm actually holding my brush and standing and painting, and working, and turning it off when i wander off or make tea or just stare distantly like a mule.

https://i.imgur.com/E7qSBZL.jpg

looks extremely good, z

i would buy that one if i had any $

Thank you so much budo, really appreciate it!