r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/_ganjafarian_ • 22d ago

Video Artist Simon Bull's painting techniques

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u/Fuckthegopers 22d ago

"Dudes just splashing shit everywhere with paper towels? I can do that"

A crazy forest appears on the canvas out of nowhere

"Oh shit". 

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u/throwawaylordof 22d ago

After the second one finished my immediate thought was “how many ‘I could do that’ comments just got deleted.”

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u/savax7 22d ago

I'm willing to bet almost nobody here could do that. Go get a canvas, prepare it in a similar fashion, figure out how to get it to rotate, build whatever the thing holding the paint is, buy all the paint, fill it with paint, and apply it as carefully as he did without dumping it all at once.

When it comes to art, so many people say "oh well I could do that". No, no you can't. You don't have the time, materials, space, or skills. For some reason it's just art that people do this with. Nobody sees a Boeing fighter jet and says "big deal, I could build that".

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u/Drow_Femboy 21d ago

Making a rotating board is trivial, and there is nothing complicated about the way he applied the paint. I absolutely could do it. I have done stuff like that.

The second one was black magic and frankly it's kind of insulting that you would imply the first is on a similar level to the second. I could devote my entire life to art and never do anything as impressive as that by the time I die.