(Painting) "SHADOWS by Teller"

[Orphia Nay]

I found this special for a number of reasons. I hope you will too.

I wondered, how could I make a digital painting (that is data and pixels on a screen) truly a "one of a kind"?

I'll paint a digital picture, print one single copy, then erase it completely off my hard drive!

So this film and the one print sitting on my desk is all that remains of the painting. No pixels, no data. Just a single hard-copy of the painting.

The image no longer exists, so I suppose the entire video is the art piece now. It hurt me a little to destroy it, but do you think the (physical copy) painting has more value and artistic merit now that it is truly a "one of a kind"?

Based off and a tribute to Teller's (of "Penn & Teller") signature magic trick "Shadows".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R72DVqsq0tE

(I'll embed it out of habit, but it's better seen in the larger format at the link.)

 

[Halfcentaur]

Gorgeous painting. My aunt still can't seem to grasp why I can't mail her the "original" when I paint her something for Christmas.

 

[Eudaemonic Plague]

I found this special for a number of reasons. I hope you will too.

I can't thank you enough for posting that. I'm a big fan of Penn & Teller, I'm an artist, and more than a little enjoyed watching that...and learned some very useful things about how some things can be built, which I'd wondered about. Maybe it's time for me to go back to school.

 

[Orphia Nay]

I can't thank you enough for posting that. I'm a big fan of Penn & Teller, I'm an artist, and more than a little enjoyed watching that...and learned some very useful things about how some things can be built, which I'd wondered about. Maybe it's time for me to go back to school.

You're welcome. Yes, I found it educational too.