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| Serina Mo and yours truly, filming in Mt. Hope Cemetery. (Photo by Chad Dusenbery.) |
Yesterday I made a painting tutorial with Serina Mo. This project has been delayed
because of equipment problems, so we were running later in the season than we'd intended. Sunday dawned clear, windy and very cold.
I’m accustomed to painting in cold weather, and I have the clothes
for it. But they are ratty and I felt I needed to look more respectable for
video. However, it was colder than I’d imagined was possible. Even with thermals under my
clothes, three hours in the wind was too long. I finished before the picture
was done, because my hands were too cold to control the paintbrush. “The rest
is just details,” I’m fond of telling my students, and this is certainly true
when the light is right. (I was so cold when I got home that I didn’t even take
a photo of the finished painting, which is still in my car.)
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| My sketch for the painting. |
RIT seems to be on a roll developing Bright Young Things for
the animation industry, and Serina is one of them. I met her through one of her
co-workers at Workinman. These kids blow me
away with their abilities in 2D and 3D animation. Their fundamental training is
very good, and it comes through when they take up traditional painting, where
the only question they have is how paint itself works. In terms of color theory,
composition and drawing, they’re as well trained as any art school graduates I
know.
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| The scene in question. I love the diagonals of the oaks. |
So I’m confident knowing that this video is in Serina’s
competent hands, and I can’t wait to see how it turns out.
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| Filming my lovely little easel. (Photo by Chad Dusenbery.) |
