ok. Hate me if you will. I understand some people will not like this video. They will think it is something self indulgent. And some people won't take me or the painting serously. But I'm not the type of person to care what people think. I believe everybody should do their own thing. And I honestly do these performance videos for my own fun and entertainment. Sometimes I hear a song and get an idea for a video and have a little movie of it running through my head. Its something creative I enjoy. I like painting and acting. When I do these I get to do both. And I was asked to paint this painting on video, so I decided why not make it fun?
As it turns out, someone I personally know is friends with Charlie Sheen and asked me to paint this portrait as a gift for Charlie Sheen. And I was asked to paint it on video so that the process of the painting could be sent to Charlie Sheen also. I've decided to paint 2 or 3 paintings of Charlie to choose from and this is the first one, from a picture of a young Charlie Sheen from the 80's. And I decided to choose an 80's song and theme of the video. In light of all the publicity Charlie Sheen has been getting, "Wild One" by Iggy Pop seemed like a fun and appropriate choice. The photograph I used as my model had a lot of light and dark and I thought it would be interesting to funk it up and give it an edge, give it a pop art feel using bold colors instead of what might be expected. In person, this painting with the lavender and yellow appears to glow. And I think it will be really beautiful shown under a soft spotlight. This painting actually took about 12 hours to paint. It required a lot of detail work that would have taken forever to film, so I worked out parts of it for filming. I had a lot of fun filming this, acting funny and having fun with 80's dancing like "Walk Like An Egypian" and dancing like Madonna and from the movie "The Breakfast Club". Hey, because that's what we should do whenever we can right? Live it up and have fun! :) Thanks for checking it out. :)
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