The Joy of Painting is a wonderful program — assuming you can get past the Afro and not doze off. But, if you don’t have an hour to learn to paint “happy trees”, check out street artist Fabian Gaete Maureira compose scenes like Bob Ross on crank.
Maureira works in Santiago, Chile, using primarily his fingers to speed-paint nature scenes on glass panes. According his display, each piece is completed in just about three minutes. I have no idea how he gets trees to appear like that but you can see more of his work at Arte100cia. [Arte100cia via Reddit]
Timmahh
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 3:44 PMSeems like a very limited scope of work. He’s good, but he has the aesthetics down to a quick set of swipes. I remember an artist called Les, or Len Hand about 30 odd years ago working in a mall in Brisbane, it only took him about 10 minutes to do a similar thing on a 24″ canvas painting schmaltzy landscapes. Of course I was young back then and he sucked me in. Eventually I gave it to the oldies and they still have it on the wall.
vin
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 4:28 PMhahaha… that guy came into my servo once! everyone knows him!
Timmahh
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 7:50 PMIs he still painting? :)
The Joker
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 7:36 PMI don’t care if his range is limited, for what it is it’s absolutely brilliant and I’m damned sure there’d be very few people in the world who could do it. Bet he makes good money too.
TSH
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 8:45 PMNow that’s what you call finger painting!
I’d buy one. Doesn’t matter that he’s not Picasso, they’re pretty!
Bryce Fraser
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