Phoenix Rising Projection

It's finally here, the painting I've been mentioning about starting for a while, the second slot canyon painting.  I'm trying to expand my visual aesthetics by creating a split canvas design, but for ease of color matching and continuity I chose to bracket the two canvases together to make a single large working surface. Once I've finished the painting, I'll take the brackets off and custom matte and frame the work.

The image used comes from the lower portion of Antelope Canyon and features a unique light glare that gives the piece its name.  For the projection process, I simply used Burnt Sienna and water.

I filmed the projection process with intent to make another fast paced movie short, but the required darkness for the projector made the film quality absolutely too poor to see anything, so the end result is all that remains for now.  I hope to film at least the first hour of each day's work, hopefully more if my camera battery can handle it, and turn each day's progress into a short movie, then once the painting is completed, whenever that may be, I'll put all the footage together to make a final beginning-to-end production video.

On a side note, a movie that I'd like to see titled '127 Hours' opened last week telling a true story about a hiker trapped in a slot canyon who eventually had to amputate his own hand to survive.  I thought my desert experiences dealing with a centimeter long wooden peg in my pinky for two weeks and loosing my keys in a slot canyon were bad, but I was wrong.