Design Media: Distance Painting

Video Transcript

"This is an idea that I'm adapting from scene painting. A lot of times in scene painting you're painting actually scenery on the floor. If you're painting a forty by sixty foot drop you can't paint it like when it's close up to your face because you can't see what you're doing. So you tape your brush to, to a handle, I'm just using my old Swiffer handle because you can just screw the Swiffer thing back on and you tape it. You want to make sure that you tape it close to the edge of the bristles. And you've got to tape it all the way up the handle so that it doesn't move. You don't want your brush to get too wiggly on you so that you have control because you actually have less, I have control because I practiced at this. But you have a different kind of control when you're working at a distance. Both in terms of what you can see and what you can do and again this is you know, this is about why don't you get big you know? And what that means is that you've got to have control for your whole arm not just in your wrist. And you can get that by putting your, your, your tool on the end of a stick and standing up while you do it. And this way you can make giant statements, brown paper is great for this."