(Video link) Painter D. Westry completes a recognizable image in less than a minute and a half on "Anderson's Viewers Got Talent."
Friday, February 8, 2013
90-second speed painting
(Video link) Painter D. Westry completes a recognizable image in less than a minute and a half on "Anderson's Viewers Got Talent."
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As an artist, do you have any idea why he would paint it upside down??
For show
I love this. Wish I could paint with such confidence.
Andy - He paints upside down for showmanship.
He's painting upside down for showmanship, but he's also doing it for a reason we all should be doing it. He's painting shapes, he's not painting a nose or an eye or an ear. When you paint shapes it all comes together in the end.
He's good! Thanks for sharing.
It's a well-known trick that drawing/painting upside down helps with observation when you have a model. Might be surprising but it works.
How clever, I've never really understood the point of performance painting though. It just furthers the myth and mystique of art for non-artists. Maybe that isn't such a bad thing though?
Either way, he has his show down pat, bravo!
I saw a different artist years ago at the Uptown Art Festival in Minneapolis do a similar upside down painting,only it was of Elvis.I don't remember what the time limit was,maybe the duration of some rock music song,but it could have been 5 minutes or so.Lots of fun.
I've never talked to one of these guys, but I've seen them. My impression has always been that it's a gymnastics routine: a memorized set of planned movements, precisely executed. He's probably painted that exact same painting dozens if not hundreds of times. I bet he could do a decent version of it with his eyes closed.
Can I ask the "is is art?" question, then? I suppose in a way it's like printmaking: he presumably developed the original image, and has now learned to reproduce it by hand.
This is beautiful. Really enjoyed catching up with your blog. What a great painting. There were so many amazing views - I could have painted many more too
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Very valid question u have there. I myself I'm on a quest to demystify this I think isnt pure art but some tricks in between
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