The Tao of Walking Ridge

I found a simple way to take time lapse photos with Ubuntu’s webcam utility Cheese.
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The club was one of my very first paintings.  I did it in pen and ink first, and did not like that at all.  I did a version in pastel.  Then eventually I did a version in acrylic on paper, because I did not expect it to turn out well.  The acrylic colors brought it to life much better than my use of pastels, so I kept it.

I wanted to see how a time lapse video of a painting would work out with my Canon G9.  I figured a second version of The Club, this time acrylic on canvas, would be an excellent time to try time lapse animation.  The total painting time was about four hours.  Shorter than most of my paintings, but I had already worked out much of it with the original version.  Removing some time that was literally just “watching the paint dry” before adding layers, a nice three minute video resulted.  I put it to Greenview Laundromat by my buddy Kevin Smith.  I thought upbeat instrumental jazz was a great sound track to put to the painting.
 

The Club - Brian Kelly, 2007 - acrylic on bristol board, 9″ x 12″

The Club II - Brian Kelly, 2009 - acrylic on canvas board, 9″ x 12″

The Club II - Time Lapse Video