An artist is creating a pop-culture oil painting every day this month
How long would you say it would take to create a quality oil painting? For the less talented among us the answer is probably something like “a million billion years.” But even for genuinely skilled people out there, the answer would have to be something like “a few weeks” or “a few days.” L.A.-based Kevyn Schmidt has been pulling it off in just one day. Less than a day, really. And he’s vowed to pull it off every day for the entire month of June.
“I came up with the idea at a Bernie Sanders rally,” Schmidt told The A.V. Club. “I agreed to do a live painting there—which I had never done before—and it came out better than expected in only about three hours. I thought, ‘You know, I could probably do a new painting every day.’”
So, he collected a pile of canvases, girded his fingers for a whole lot of cramps, and on the first of the month, he got to work. The first of 30 was a portrait of of Kit Harington as Jon Snow from HBO’s Game Of Thrones.