Painting Time Lapse - Francesco D'Adamo (Abstract Expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction) 

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Ehi, thank you!

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Thanks Gary!

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Thanks Mimi!

So glad to hear it had that effect!

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Thanks a lot, I hope you enjoy the long video (don't expect much, it's quite simple and straightforward) and I agree with you, painting (and all of its toys) is a rather addictive process.

I'm very pleased that you appreciated this element. I have to admit that the main reason why I made some of these videos is precisely to retrace those moments, those different characters, because with time they clearly tend to fade from memory. Also, while painting you have a different way of seeing the canvas, compared to an overall view from a distance.

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Thanks a lot Elizabeth!

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Wow, thanks!

Hi, they're done with an acrylic and vinyl medium in the first stages, then with oil. Spray paint was also used at one point, and there are strokes made with charcoal, but I don't think they are really visible in the video.

well, I was wrong, actually the strokes made with graphite and charcoal are also visible in the video.

Hi Sara, no paper was used for making this specific painting.

This painting is made mainly with oils and some acrylic binders, but pastels, charcoals, enamels and spray paint had a minor role too, so my advice is to try different mediums and surfaces until you find those which works better for you, according to the result you're looking for. It can be a long process and I wouldn't start with too much from which to choose, but experimenting by yourself is the only way to go I guess.

@@lettera_79 ok thank u btw your art is amazing man keep it up

Ehi, thanks a lot for your kind words!

It all depends on the final image you want to achieve, the sense of its final appearance. After all, it's the same process for any kind of painting. And its path will not necessarily be perfectly ordered and linear (and I prefer it not to be), but it will guide you in the choices you have to make in its various stages.

In this particular work of yours in this video do you have a preconceived image in mind, a plan ? Im trying to figure out whether your are painting intuitively (by feeling) or you are looking to a photo or some other reference and therefore there is a solid plan in place & you are trying to achieve that … Many thanks for answering, your work here is beautiful & heartfelt 🙏🏼

@@Trusid Okay, I'll try to answer a bit in general and a bit on this specific painting. Starting in general, I think that when a person is doing something continuously, for many years, studying it in depth etc, it is very difficult to separate sharply what is intuitive and spontaneous from what is organized and prepared. Sometimes you can make very quick and radical decisions that from the outside might appear almost random, but which in reality for the person who put them in place are the result of experience and repetition. Sometimes decisions are made at a certain point in the work in order to further or put in place a process that will not actually manifest itself on the canvas until much later. Now, going to this painting, to say it briefly, I am not following a picture or a sketch in front of my eyes. Discovery is a large part of the pleasure of painting for me. At the same time I know what I'm looking for, it's not going blindly, and I'm wondering how to do it. I don't want to make this complicated but the truth is there is no real answer to your question.

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Both, plus other mediums

I know, you're right, yet when I was filming the painting I was not even sure to make a video about it, so I didn't take the time to make proper framing

@@lettera_79 I made a video of myself painting a mural approximately the same size as yours 25 years ago and I learned a lot from watching myself paint. I watched a movie of Matisse watching himself painting a large canvas and he commented that he never realized that he paused to consider his next brush stroke. Keep at it! 👍👍😎

@@comontoshi Yes indeed is a very useful tool. At the same time it has some kind of influence on what you're doing, on different levels, some maybe also positive, others surely negative. And I can't imagine the feeling of watching a similar video 25 years later as you did!

Thanks! I'm currently filming another large painting, sooner or later it will be done😉

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On a wall maybe? :-)

Actually the word "art" is never mentioned on the page or video. Very ambiguous and vague word. "Painting" is the one used. And I think that objectively it is about painting, whether one likes the end result or not.

@@lettera_79 Ahhh logic, they probably weren't expecting that! The work is beautiful - I love the sense of movement in the final piece.

I'm sorry David, it was recorded this way, and I agree with you that it can give problems in visualization. You can try slowing down the playback and see if it is more enjoyable.

no offense at all, I would say it is a suggestive image

@@lettera_79 what

@@lettera_79 oh wait did you mean suggestive as in "tending to suggest an idea"? I thought you meant the sexual use of that term.... 🤣🤣😭

@@DashenBoi yes, suggestive as evocative

I've spent hours looking at the sort of graffiti that you are talking about. Even though It is inadvertent, it is often wonderful art.

I don't understand what you are trying to say, really

Exactly: I cannot see what you are saying in this depiction: something.. like the same 🤑 over and out? I happen to feel your discomfort.. yet too the precision of YOUR STROKE WHICH IS PROMISING 💍