Today I have been looking at my Recycling video with a view to painting a recreation of the scene.
The footage was shot through the car windscreen during an extremely heavy downpour. Consequently the images are very distorted. The accompanying sound of the splashing raindrops served to give me a ready made rhythm with which to engage as I applied the paint.
I worked outside from memory and quickly became absorbed by the way the objects almost apeared to melt into one another. I found it quite challenging and may look at the video again with a view to refining the painting with a few areas of greater detail. I feel the real test, as many artists find, will be in knowing when to finish the painting.
