Painting Time Lapse - Francesco D'Adamo (Abstract Expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction)

This video covers most of the making stages for "Suffragio Universale" (2021, Masquerade series), over a period of 5 months.
Final size is 200x300 cm. It is painted with oils, acrylic, acrovinilico, charcoal and pastels on linen canvas.
For additional infos:
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#painting #abstractexpressionism #paintingtimelapse

[@theinspirationalpainterspr7698]

Love this painting with so large scale! Interesting color choices and contrast in the process of the composition. I love to play this Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement! This painting illustrates the classical piece very well! 👍👏❤️

[@trinity2004star]

It’s amazing to have the chance to see the work in progress 🤩

[@therealizeproject]

this was amazing to watch. thank you for sharing

[@lettera_79]

Thanks!

[@IsaTeles18]

I love your work !

[@garygoldstein6023]

Thanks for showing the layering -great painting

[@lettera_79]

Thanks Gary!

[@aku7296]

Amazing. Keep up the great work.👍🏻

[@lettera_79]

Thanks

[@jeffrys1235]

Powerfull abstrac painting

[@richardwilliamsiv3778]

This was wonderful to watch. All those layers and textures building up and building upon one another. Really beautiful creation

[@rachelchase]

Stunning

[@Mac5t]

Amazing!

[@KatinaFineArt]

Il est super grand votre atelier, j'adore l'abstrait, j'adore😍

[@susanwilson2297]

Love this🙌😊

[@amuservlog4561]

Interesting, beautiful result.

[@lettera_79]

Thank you!

[@micheleoftherightcolormorg9290]

Incredible work!❤❤❤

[@lettera_79]

thanks

[@InjiArtistry]

Love it!

[@WildFloArt]

Uplifting! Thank you

[@lettera_79]

Thanks Suzanne

[@runningwarrior5468]

love your line quality/markmaking

[@BunnyLang]

Wow, this is so amazing, there were so many times where I thought this painting could be finished, so surprising to see what it has become, hat's off!

[@lettera_79]

Thank you!

[@calebgroncki6045]

Brilliant!

[@lettera_79]

Thanks!

[@kelechim-8406]

Magnificent ❤

[@angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl]

Very brilliant look awesome love

[@lettera_79]

Thank you!

[@bethka104]

Love it

[@irrealislife]

Great work!

[@lettera_79]

Thanks!

[@theinspirationalpainterspr7698]

Love this painting with so large scale! Amazing color choices and contrast in the process of the composition. I love to play Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement on the piano~ one of my favorites! This painting illustrates the classical piece well! 👏 🥰❤️

[@thereseschab5042]

I love it

[@sdouba]

You peaked my energy Francesco. I am heading straight to my studio thanks to you for this and thank you for sharing your talent and skills.

[@lettera_79]

So glad to hear it had that effect!

[@dgt0073]

The more I watch the more I’m blown away. Amazing. See you at the gate modern

[@lettera_79]

Ehi, thank you!

[@fatoomgierdien110]

Stunning🎉😢❤ Toom@ CapeTown

[@dimitrisgonatas2264]

Very impressive

[@theartisthands]

I like your style of painting.

[@lettera_79]

Thanks :-)

[@waltersmom4629]

It makes me happy seeing people put in a lot of time and effort into their abstract pieces. This looks absolutely incredible!

[@lettera_79]

Thanks a lot!

[@skysky9115]

Yeh ! It's good !

[@cosacox]

Gracias por compartir tu proceso

[@mayhtoo3576]

Superrrrr.....

[@lettera_79]

Thanks

[@dianecourtney2724]

Thank You 🌷

[@j.p.p.1964]

this painting is changing it's character a lot of times, it's amazing! Depending on colors and construction til you finish! I have to learn a lot - especially not to finish my paintings too early...

[@lettera_79]

I'm very pleased that you appreciated this element. I have to admit that the main reason why I made some of these videos is precisely to retrace those moments, those different characters, because with time they clearly tend to fade from memory. Also, while painting you have a different way of seeing the canvas, compared to an overall view from a distance.

[@simonamarziani5744]

GREAT

[@xdaiart]

The music is a perfect accompaniment for your painting, majestic and energetic.

[@lettera_79]

Wow, thanks!

[@Drbob369]

Great images of Kensington Vancouver and tenderloin lol

[@daisybugzy]

Cool 😎

[@carlostiviroli4467]

Mi piace il tuo style. Saluti d"Argentina.

[@i_see1997]

Thanks. 👍

[@Jesuisartiste]

Lovely work. It looked so sick at 2:00 mark too you could’ve signed it at that point imo.

[@raoufshobhi6766]

عسل يافنان اية الشرط الحلو دة يافنان دنتا فنان صحيح من لبسك

[@Artba_Kreasi]

hello, I'm from Indonesia... I like your work... wish you were here I want to be friends with you... your work really cheers me up... keep it up and keep working...

[@lettera_79]

Ehi, thanks a lot for your kind words!

[@elizabethcameron6045]

Absolutely. It all works. I love the highly intuitive component of abstract art and you made that work very well. Bravo!

[@lettera_79]

Thanks a lot Elizabeth!

[@chillmatic6304]

Can u list the supplies you use I’m trying to learn about neo expressionism every since i discovered basquiat art

[@lettera_79]

This painting is made mainly with oils and some acrylic binders, but pastels, charcoals, enamels and spray paint had a minor role too, so my advice is to try different mediums and surfaces until you find those which works better for you, according to the result you're looking for. It can be a long process and I wouldn't start with too much from which to choose, but experimenting by yourself is the only way to go I guess.

[@chillmatic6304]

@@lettera_79 ok thank u btw your art is amazing man keep it up

[@ShinobitheCat]

Abstraction makes people think that’s why I like it. Brilliant work!

[@raoufshobhi6766]

عسل يافنان بموت فيك ياعسل

[@janeausten3989]

How do you get these fluid black lines? With paint or charcoal? I love this painting.

[@lettera_79]

Hi, they're done with an acrylic and vinyl medium in the first stages, then with oil. Spray paint was also used at one point, and there are strokes made with charcoal, but I don't think they are really visible in the video.

[@lettera_79]

well, I was wrong, actually the strokes made with graphite and charcoal are also visible in the video.

[@Trusid]

How do you decide which areas to fill in & which areas not & what shapes to make with the line work? Thanks Francesco ❤

[@lettera_79]

It all depends on the final image you want to achieve, the sense of its final appearance. After all, it's the same process for any kind of painting. And its path will not necessarily be perfectly ordered and linear (and I prefer it not to be), but it will guide you in the choices you have to make in its various stages.

[@Trusid]

In this particular work of yours in this video do you have a preconceived image in mind, a plan ? Im trying to figure out whether your are painting intuitively (by feeling) or you are looking to a photo or some other reference and therefore there is a solid plan in place & you are trying to achieve that … Many thanks for answering, your work here is beautiful & heartfelt 🙏🏼

[@lettera_79]

@@Trusid Okay, I'll try to answer a bit in general and a bit on this specific painting. Starting in general, I think that when a person is doing something continuously, for many years, studying it in depth etc, it is very difficult to separate sharply what is intuitive and spontaneous from what is organized and prepared. Sometimes you can make very quick and radical decisions that from the outside might appear almost random, but which in reality for the person who put them in place are the result of experience and repetition. Sometimes decisions are made at a certain point in the work in order to further or put in place a process that will not actually manifest itself on the canvas until much later. Now, going to this painting, to say it briefly, I am not following a picture or a sketch in front of my eyes. Discovery is a large part of the pleasure of painting for me. At the same time I know what I'm looking for, it's not going blindly, and I'm wondering how to do it. I don't want to make this complicated but the truth is there is no real answer to your question.

[@AntoniaSara]

hi, love your work. What kind of paper are you using?

[@lettera_79]

Hi Sara, no paper was used for making this specific painting.

[@peetvader478]

Which camera are you using? it looks great !

[@lettera_79]

BMPCC6kpro

[@peetvader478]

thx!@@lettera_79

[@comontoshi]

Just a comment . . . the closeups at the end of the video have more compositional impact than the painting as a whole . . . 😎

[@lettera_79]

I know, you're right, yet when I was filming the painting I was not even sure to make a video about it, so I didn't take the time to make proper framing

[@comontoshi]

@@lettera_79 I made a video of myself painting a mural approximately the same size as yours 25 years ago and I learned a lot from watching myself paint. I watched a movie of Matisse watching himself painting a large canvas and he commented that he never realized that he paused to consider his next brush stroke. Keep at it! 👍👍😎

[@lettera_79]

@@comontoshi Yes indeed is a very useful tool. At the same time it has some kind of influence on what you're doing, on different levels, some maybe also positive, others surely negative. And I can't imagine the feeling of watching a similar video 25 years later as you did!

[@rosidmuhtadi6339]

Its has harmony

[@miguelsuarez8010]

Is it oil or acrylics?

[@lettera_79]

Both, plus other mediums

[@paulinacaballero1365]

Tendrías que dar vuelta el cuadro para ver el trabajo terminado.

[@romanowskiart]

Please do this again soon….

[@lettera_79]

Thanks! I'm currently filming another large painting, sooner or later it will be done😉

[@raoufshobhi6766]

بسرخ بحبك يافنان اى حاجة حلوه منك

[@kirkukkakaiy5152]

colllll

[@raoufshobhi6766]

انا بسرخ بحبك يافنان

[@luisvillanueva1663]

Where do I get a print of this

[@lettera_79]

I'm sorry there are no prints available

[@romanowskiart]

But incredible…….

[@rachelsremedies2602]

Confused ! Where would a person with a regular apartment hang the painting ????

[@lettera_79]

On a wall maybe? :-)

[@seconds-uo8ui]

?

[@santistafloripa]

todo esse trabalho , pra isso . ta de brincadeira kkkkk

[@badboybootz8]

"Art"

[@lettera_79]

Actually the word "art" is never mentioned on the page or video. Very ambiguous and vague word. "Painting" is the one used. And I think that objectively it is about painting, whether one likes the end result or not.

[@joeboonmusic4004]

@@lettera_79 Ahhh logic, they probably weren't expecting that! The work is beautiful - I love the sense of movement in the final piece.

[@user-ji8wt7hq6s]

Радуют ли цвета глаз ? Да... Имеет ли это отношение к живописи? Нет....

[@the-best-fragments-of-movies]

the colors are kind of muddy

[@honestlythatsbull-ji9wc]

Mmm....

[@davidhill5684]

This would be much easier for me to watch if there was a lot less motion. It's too busy. Pity.

[@lettera_79]

I'm sorry David, it was recorded this way, and I agree with you that it can give problems in visualization. You can try slowing down the playback and see if it is more enjoyable.

[@princesssilke]

Now, Adamo: will you enhance your own, rather than That!??? How unhappy you were.. taking the inherent over! 🤮

[@lettera_79]

I don't understand what you are trying to say, really

[@princesssilke]

Exactly: I cannot see what you are saying in this depiction: something.. like the same 🤑 over and out? I happen to feel your discomfort.. yet too the precision of YOUR STROKE WHICH IS PROMISING 💍

[@DashenBoi]

No offense, but your painting looks like a build-up of graffiti on the wall of a street alley-way in Chicago.

[@lettera_79]

no offense at all, I would say it is a suggestive image

[@DashenBoi]

@@lettera_79 what

[@DashenBoi]

@@lettera_79 oh wait did you mean suggestive as in "tending to suggest an idea"? I thought you meant the sexual use of that term.... 🤣🤣😭

[@lettera_79]

@@DashenBoi yes, suggestive as evocative

[@waynekasmar4401]

I've spent hours looking at the sort of graffiti that you are talking about. Even though It is inadvertent, it is often wonderful art.

[@williamschlenger1518]

Sorry not my taste.

[@walterbarrientos562]

George Condo!!

[@aeropuerto50]

Es un gran error para los intereses del artista que pase el vídeo a cámara rápida. Da dolor de ojos y no se aprecia el trabajo.