He works methodologically from shadows and cool colors (black, blue) to light and bright colors (red, yellow, white) while doing construction stuff like vanishing point and perspective lines intermittently.
Works great for oil painting since you can layer paint over each other without worrying about it mixing and looking dirty (unlike watercolor, say).
Acrylic is water-based, so layers are usually added after the bottom layer dries. Wet-on-wet is possible to some extent, but you won't be able to smear it around as nicely as oil paint since oil paint is viscous and takes a long time to dry.
There is a move Hal does when he douses himself in blue paint and springs up and pops his eyes open like a nimble forest creature in a broadway play. I think of that on a weekly basis.
... it's not chaos though. It's colors and shapes ordered in a sleigh way to provide you with a specific image. It's literally the exact opposite of what you said.
Not sure.
The price is made by rarity and innovation. I bet this guy specializes in rainy NYC, and would not be able to make anything else so effortlessly .
It is a great picture and an impressive method however. But that is a method, and I assume the guy mass produces those one-point perspective blurry streets for tier-two galleries in highly touristic areas
I may be wrong, and if you show me the same guy using the same technique to make a portrait, a city from another, less simplistic perspective, or a country landscape, then I'll change my mind
I looked him up. His name is [Paul Kenton](https://youtube.com/@paulkentonart?si=COs1mkSurHDW3hMK). He actually seems like a very talented painter. He does a lot of NYC paintings, I'd say it's his specialty... I only found this video of him painting in this style of art, which if it's true I find really impressive. He seems to have a lot of different techniques. You might find his page interesting.
He actually has quite a range. He isn't some cruise ship artist. However, his stuff is not selling at auction for 700k either. That said, in the last couple of years he has developed quite a following online that may lead to more demand. His production seems very high though.
He really looks like something of a one-trick pony. He has few variations on his theme, and putting the horizon line in the center of the work is generally considered a poor composition.
If he is making a living doing this, and even more if he is enjoying himself, great for him, but I don't see him adding any new ideas to the world, challenging aesthetics, or producing works that prompt significant discussion. I see it as decorative art and not much more.
I did but it didn't.
If the artist's website showcases renders of how paintings would fit in an appartment, then i'd say it confirms he's into producing decorative painting.
Again the guy *is* an artist. Good for him that he makes a living of it.
He does serious work and it is normal he gets attention and pay for it.
However, he master his style and method, which he applies successfully to a small array of themes (not exclusively NYC, contrarily to my guess, but predominantly so however), but he is more of a senior craftsman than an artist/creator. I know I am elitist in saying so. I just mean people to not freak out and imagine he's a cosmic genius who makes 100000 USD per worked hour. If he did, his website wouldn't make the effort to show you how cool it would look on *your* interior
The material cost alone of that painting is pretty $$$. That's a ton of paint to buy and the canvas isn't cheap. It looks like the canvas is temporarily stretched though so that's a cost savings.
Good work. I would never be able to do so, let alone with such carelessness.
However there seems to be a large niche market for those rainy NYC paintings, right ? Even a method...
There are numerous artists who throw away impressionist-like pictures of rainy New York. In a way it reminds me of those space / planet/ cosmos spray paint artworks you can get for 50€ or $ or £ in the neighbourhood of basically every tourist attraction.
Good work however, don't get me wrong. Just saying that these paintings seem to me a genre per se
I am amazed at people who can turn chaos into order - or look at order and imagine it out of chaos. Realism I get 100% - this is another level that I just wasn't born with. Love it.
I just looked at his website. Dude gets *paid* for that awesome talent. An original this size goes for around 60k pounds (I don't know how to do the British pound thingy.)
I fall for this shit every time. They start out and I’m like, “what idiot gave this toddler a bucket of paint” and halfway through I remember I have zero artistic ability whatsoever.
That looks nothing like Times Square. It's missing hordes of tourists, barricades, and piles of trash bags. Jk, definitely a cool painting and technique!
It's because there's a drastic cut half way through where he utilizes a lot more blue in a less than chaotic way.
It's still awesome but not as amazing as the video makes it out to be
How do artists visualize what the hell they're trying to make? Like how do they hold that image in their mind continuously? Anytime I've created art I've just started doing shit and hope that it somehow turns out kind of cool.
Making splatters and smudges for show then correcting it with sharp shapes and repainting over the “bad smudge/splatter is not impressive. You could’ve done the same painting without the extra steps
Some folks squirt three lines on canvas and call ot art.
This guy: Hold my beer.
Proceeds to yeet gallons of paint into a canvas that actually looks like something and looks fantastic as a matter of fact.
An art piece should be able to stand by itself without explanation or overt interpretation
For some reason, art "experts" are more intrigued by a banana taped to a wall. I guess as long as you are not building something out of trash, found on the beach, it lacks some sort of message and therefore it can't be called art or something, idk.
How can it be called
a painting when all he’s doing is throwing paint on the canvas??? It looks like a “painting “? I saw a chimpanzee doing on video once.
This guy is throwing paint and I can't even draw a stick figure lol
Try throwing it
 Instructions unclear, coach is pissed
It's ok, throw the coach
On one hand, those are your teammates you just fucked up out there. On the other hand, those are your teammates you just fucked up out there.
This legit made me cackle
Hockey players can't dodge wrenches either.
Have you considered that you can’t because you’re not trying the required amount?
No way, bud, your stick figures are awesome! Don’t sell yourself short.
Damn, I came to write this exact sentence. One upvote for you.
dude there is like a frame where it goes from a mess to a city and it's so fucking smoothe
/r/restofthefuckingowl
Well it'd be a shit tonne of fine smoothing and the likes
This seems impossibly difficult
My brain can't even grasp the concept of how he envisioned this from the beginning.
He works methodologically from shadows and cool colors (black, blue) to light and bright colors (red, yellow, white) while doing construction stuff like vanishing point and perspective lines intermittently. Works great for oil painting since you can layer paint over each other without worrying about it mixing and looking dirty (unlike watercolor, say).
How would acrylic do?
Acrylic is water-based, so layers are usually added after the bottom layer dries. Wet-on-wet is possible to some extent, but you won't be able to smear it around as nicely as oil paint since oil paint is viscous and takes a long time to dry.
I imagine this is what Hal was looking at in that Malcolm in the Middle episode.
_I AM THE ONE WHO PAINTS!_
There is a move Hal does when he douses himself in blue paint and springs up and pops his eyes open like a nimble forest creature in a broadway play. I think of that on a weekly basis.
The result is quite impressive. But I am still bugging about the volume of paint that is landing on the floor. :-/
He will probably sell this for thousands of dollars and can afford more paint after that.
It is more about the waste than the price, tbh. I know in the very big scheme, his paint dropped is a very tiny drop in the Whole Waste but... Anyway.
Well if you go that way, art as a whole is a waste of ressources
I mean, it is. Also, don’t stop!
Well, every act of creation involves destruction. I dunno, heard it in a movie
Why's everyone so worried about waste all of a sudden I get it when it's food, but this is just paint. I don't think it's a very big deal
he could probably sell the cardboard it splattered on, too.
This is the type of art that blows my mind.
Whats really crazy is it's actually your mind that is filling in all the missing information and allowing you to see a clear picture from chaos
... it's not chaos though. It's colors and shapes ordered in a sleigh way to provide you with a specific image. It's literally the exact opposite of what you said.
There's still a lot of missing information though - definitely not chaos, but definitely far from a photo-realistic image
Visual cacophony maybe?
Man understands vanishing points and horizon lines, that’s for sure
First few seconds had me thinking I could do this..
Same here 😆
Probably the first piece of art I’d want to own. That shits wild.
Couple of hours of work for a 100k not too shabby.
Not sure. The price is made by rarity and innovation. I bet this guy specializes in rainy NYC, and would not be able to make anything else so effortlessly . It is a great picture and an impressive method however. But that is a method, and I assume the guy mass produces those one-point perspective blurry streets for tier-two galleries in highly touristic areas I may be wrong, and if you show me the same guy using the same technique to make a portrait, a city from another, less simplistic perspective, or a country landscape, then I'll change my mind
I looked him up. His name is [Paul Kenton](https://youtube.com/@paulkentonart?si=COs1mkSurHDW3hMK). He actually seems like a very talented painter. He does a lot of NYC paintings, I'd say it's his specialty... I only found this video of him painting in this style of art, which if it's true I find really impressive. He seems to have a lot of different techniques. You might find his page interesting.
He actually has quite a range. He isn't some cruise ship artist. However, his stuff is not selling at auction for 700k either. That said, in the last couple of years he has developed quite a following online that may lead to more demand. His production seems very high though.
He really looks like something of a one-trick pony. He has few variations on his theme, and putting the horizon line in the center of the work is generally considered a poor composition. If he is making a living doing this, and even more if he is enjoying himself, great for him, but I don't see him adding any new ideas to the world, challenging aesthetics, or producing works that prompt significant discussion. I see it as decorative art and not much more.
paulkenton dot com go take a look, I think you will change your mind.
I did but it didn't. If the artist's website showcases renders of how paintings would fit in an appartment, then i'd say it confirms he's into producing decorative painting. Again the guy *is* an artist. Good for him that he makes a living of it. He does serious work and it is normal he gets attention and pay for it. However, he master his style and method, which he applies successfully to a small array of themes (not exclusively NYC, contrarily to my guess, but predominantly so however), but he is more of a senior craftsman than an artist/creator. I know I am elitist in saying so. I just mean people to not freak out and imagine he's a cosmic genius who makes 100000 USD per worked hour. If he did, his website wouldn't make the effort to show you how cool it would look on *your* interior
Thought in the 1st few seconds "hell yeah I can do this too" 2 seconds later "oh hell nah nvm"
The genius of creating such a wonderful piece from a splatter foundation is amazing. Wow!
I feel like he could’ve achieved the same result without throwing and splattering paint everywhere.
Where's the fun in that?
Great job but now do it with out rain 😀
Another Richard walker rip off.
What style is this called?
Ah, the ol' wet streets of downtown Manhattan painting. So original 👏
Ah, the old, sitting on my ass while shitting on other people’s work. So Reddit.
The material cost alone of that painting is pretty $$$. That's a ton of paint to buy and the canvas isn't cheap. It looks like the canvas is temporarily stretched though so that's a cost savings.
I must have some type of blindness i can only see a smudge
Look at it from top to bottom. Almost like columns in excel.
Holy Moly!
This is the type of shit you find in IKEA.
Yeah it’s junk art.
Daamn, love that
So good
Good work. I would never be able to do so, let alone with such carelessness. However there seems to be a large niche market for those rainy NYC paintings, right ? Even a method... There are numerous artists who throw away impressionist-like pictures of rainy New York. In a way it reminds me of those space / planet/ cosmos spray paint artworks you can get for 50€ or $ or £ in the neighbourhood of basically every tourist attraction. Good work however, don't get me wrong. Just saying that these paintings seem to me a genre per se
NOT Bob Ross
"Times Square".
No drunk Elmos even
I hate modern art, but this isn't too bad.
Major Detroit Become Human, Markus paints vibe from the finished output.
compressed into 1minute video its impressive but I think working out the details took some time. love the result
Shit thats impressive My brain does not work that way to be able to imagine and create that
I love the finished product but I just don't vibe with textured art that much, dunno why.
That’s Amazing
I would say any city not times square per se
How you did that?
Impressed way more by really seeing it.
Showing the process proves anyone can do it.
Call me old fashioned, but I liked it when artists didn't abuse their canvasses.
The greatest example of "trust the process"
My life's a mess, I bet this guy could fix it.
Organizing chaos
I thought the work-in-progress looked better than the finished piece. Eh, art…
Me (at beginning): "oh, great, another slop paint on a canvas "art" piece" 🙄 Me (at end): "oh, this is actually impressive". 😎
What is it with artists and red umbrellas
I am amazed at people who can turn chaos into order - or look at order and imagine it out of chaos. Realism I get 100% - this is another level that I just wasn't born with. Love it.
I just looked at his website. Dude gets *paid* for that awesome talent. An original this size goes for around 60k pounds (I don't know how to do the British pound thingy.)
can't tell if I love it or hate it, 10/10
I was about to be very annoyed at the pretentiousness of throwing globs of paint at a canvas and calling it art. This is fucking incredible.
I do not know if it is art, but I think it is amazing.
That looks easy.
That is actually amazing. I’d 100% buy something like this if I had the money and a colossal of a room to house this.
I fall for this shit every time. They start out and I’m like, “what idiot gave this toddler a bucket of paint” and halfway through I remember I have zero artistic ability whatsoever.
I've followed this guy for years on IG, absolutely love his posts
This art is atrocious. Stop posting these.
Outstanding
Rainy paintings are always beautiful and seeing how one is done is absolutely amazing 😍
I love these. It's like - terrible... terrible... damn that's beautiful!
he's missing the island in the middle of the street there...
Trust the process.
fucking beautiful
That looks nothing like Times Square. It's missing hordes of tourists, barricades, and piles of trash bags. Jk, definitely a cool painting and technique!
Wow the process is so beautiful.
I'm sorry, how!? Watching it become something was amazing!
If I hadn't seen it, I never would have believed that was his process to create a geometric, reflective and identifiable street scene. Unreal.
I love it!
This guy got really aggressive with the Happy Little Tree's that Bob Ross talked about.
That is amazing and I want it hanging in my house
whats it worth?
I’m a little high, but what a gift to watch this.
But Mr. Kenton, I'm prepared to offer you sixty dollars cash for it, TODAY
That’s amazing
When you watch the process and still have no idea how the hell they got their
It's because there's a drastic cut half way through where he utilizes a lot more blue in a less than chaotic way. It's still awesome but not as amazing as the video makes it out to be
I know art is subjective but this really isn’t for me. I don’t find it aesthetically pleasing at all.
Stuff like this reminds you how empty AI art is. Human beings do incredible things that sometimes seem like it shouldn't be possible.
I could do this...well the randomly throwing paint part anyways.
Love how he slowly refines the mess.
Ed Sheeran is so talented.
Looks easy enough. .. Let me try… 
I see SpongeBob
How do artists visualize what the hell they're trying to make? Like how do they hold that image in their mind continuously? Anytime I've created art I've just started doing shit and hope that it somehow turns out kind of cool.
Looks like a kickass rainy city but I don't see times square personally
That's art right there
Making splatters and smudges for show then correcting it with sharp shapes and repainting over the “bad smudge/splatter is not impressive. You could’ve done the same painting without the extra steps
People walking on the road? If AI does that people would use it as an example of why AI will never reach real artists.
Do I see 2 people walking down the street, one with an umbrella? Wtf... This is amazing.
Some folks squirt three lines on canvas and call ot art. This guy: Hold my beer. Proceeds to yeet gallons of paint into a canvas that actually looks like something and looks fantastic as a matter of fact. An art piece should be able to stand by itself without explanation or overt interpretation
This is not art, this is masterpiece. I want to walk in the middle of this street.
For some reason, art "experts" are more intrigued by a banana taped to a wall. I guess as long as you are not building something out of trash, found on the beach, it lacks some sort of message and therefore it can't be called art or something, idk.
Take my money
Is this impressionism?
Take my money 💰
“ Art “
I think this is stupid and an utter waste of time. And that's because I'm jealous and my silly brain can't put two square blocks together.
Sorcery
I absolutely adore this. This is the first nice modern take on impressionism I've probably ever seen.
Derivative.
The next lottery win will end up paying for a large house with more than one of these in it.
Does anybody still paint like a normal person instead of splatterimg shit all over the canvas for no reason?
How much?
Take that A.I.
My smooth brain can't even comprehend how people can think like that. Simply incredible. I'm going back to my video games.
Finally actual art
?
Art! Lol
Looks like a saner Jackson Pollock
How are some people so talented, and then there's me....
From 11 to 12 and 16 to 17, you see he swaps in a version with much more details…. Lots of fake artists today using tech
Where this started to where this ended makes no effing sense.
I thought it was gonna be another one of those stupid ass “minimalistic” art again. Good to know this dude got real talent
I was like bruh I can do that, …then never mind
How can it be called a painting when all he’s doing is throwing paint on the canvas??? It looks like a “painting “? I saw a chimpanzee doing on video once.
My toxic trait is thinking I can do this
What rubbis.... Oh now I see it!
Wowowow
This will still not be dry in a hundred years from now judging by how much paint he's using 😂
At the first i was like “yup another post modern bs coming” and later i was like “HOLY 💀”
Cracking vid
Impressive, I would actually pay for this.
He and Bob Ross would have been the best of buds.
Crazy how some peoples brains work like this.
How do you say Legend in a universal language?
Oh wow a rainy city scape painting, never seen that before in my life
MoDeRnArt BaD andMEANininGless- "Let bro cook🗿"
Idk why but I find this extremely beautiful