Angel Painting Progression

Erik Aug 20, 2008 — 117 comments

Here’s the video from the images I took of the process of painting the Angel. I tried to take a picture every time it changed enough to be noticeable to someone other than me. I’ve always been interested in the process of painting, and I think a video like this (although I’ve never actually seen another artist make progression images into a video, I am the first in the history of the world) is the best way to understand an artist’s work. You can see that at the beginning my focus is structural, then gradually it moves toward more detail work. It also becomes apparent that I changed a few areas multiple times, and the whole thing looks like a complete Kiko the monkey mess basically all the way until the end. My friends in college used to make fun of me for this, they said that my paintings in progress would look horrible no matter when you saw them, then on the last day I would salvage it to the point where you could actually tell what it was.

Try to focus on one area and watch it change.

If you can’t tell, it runs forward from the first sketch on canvas to the finished painting where it pauses, then runs backward to the beginning. Repeat.

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Nick Aug 21, 2008

Looks like she shed some weight during the progression, which is good, since angels aren’t fat (everyone knows that). Very cool, as usual. And nice choice on going from beginning to end, then backwards. Makes it much easier to follow than if it just did a loop.

Brett Aug 21, 2008

That’s pretty amazing; my favorite part is the backwards progression – it looks like she opened the Ark of the Covenant (I thought your website suffered from a lack of Indiana Jones references – true art).

Don Sloan Aug 21, 2008

Can you make her fly over and land on your barn painting?

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I pretty much have the same type of transformation in the morning when I wake up. Your basic body hair problem, except mine makes me get up in the middle of the night and hunt the local wildlife.

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