AM needs a projector.

This might be the last painting that I make in which the image is not traced directly from a projector. For this one I used the old method of amplifying a sketch with a grid. Realistically though, this process is not fast enough and it is extremely tedious and annoying. I have decided that to produce a justifiable body of work (in terms of time) the drawing has to be completely figured out before the painting is started, and amplified with a projector.

Of course it’s amazing how someone like Claudio Bravo can work from life andemploy a method in which the final product is obtained by the traditionalist repetitive task of fixing mistakes, but the hour ratio spent on each painting using this method results in works that if made for sale seem disproportionally expensive. In fact, the process is not practical at all for an emerging artist even if they are being sponsored.

An emerging artist has two options: to have a day job or to look for funding, and in both cases time is limited. Our era requires of artists to have a certain quantity of works to display every year, or a list of exhibitions in our curriculum vitae that validates our existence and our efforts. Quality is less important than quantity or size when all we need is some text in a document. But that's beside the point, with this painting the lesson was to prevent the fidgety, general-to-specific method of applying paint, and to figure out the composition first in the computer, then project it, and finally, to really spend time mixing paint to avoid going over what’s already on the surface. These images of the progress of a recent painting show some of the unnecessary work that I mentioned.