Amy Shackleton, Artist, Reveals Her Painting Process With Time-Lapse Video

Amy Shackleton, a 25-year-old artist in Toronto, doesn't use a paintbrush to create these images.

She uses what look like ketchup and mustard bottles to squeeze paint onto the canvases, and then rotates the pictures to control the dripping.

It may be difficult to imagine how that technique leads to paintings like these, but thanks to this time-lapse video, which speeds up her painting process by 800, we can see exactly how Shackleton works: measuring, marking, squeezing paint, rotating and even removing the canvases. According to Gizmodo, this is 30 hours of painting compressed down to two minutes.

Time-lapse video is not just for human-made projects: check out this stunning time-lapse video from Norway and this one, made by compiling images from the International Space Station.

WATCH: Amy Shackleton - Painting Time-Lapse:

Comments

[Nic the wonder puppy]

11:25 AM on 10/01/2011

I use my paws

[mrtnl kunis]

09:27 PM on 09/29/2011

this is so amazing

[pennywell]

11:11 PM on 09/28/2011

fanfreakintastic!

[DG1981]

01:58 PM on 09/28/2011

Kinda wish her colour choices didn't appear so "straight from the tube"

[It Must Get Better]

12:13 PM on 09/28/2011

Very cool!

[wheelzroller]

08:22 AM on 09/28/2011

Amy Shackleton should be commended. She has a great technique and a visual eye for
beauty. I wish her every great success.

[electricladyland]

08:19 AM on 09/28/2011

Just think how good she could paint if she DID use a paint brush. Conversely, how smeary the Sistine Chapel would look if Michelangelo used squeeze bottles. Not to mention Michelangelo himself.

[Tara Hunkoff]

10:48 PM on 10/01/2011

It would take a lot of monks to rotate the Sistine Chapel.

[redpod]

07:52 AM on 09/28/2011

Successful artists never get tired of the monotony of a specific technique or style, that they have created. They will do it to death, before (only in some cases) they move on. That's what makes them successful.

[awesome me]

06:53 AM on 09/28/2011

This was posted on that 'website with the alien' :-p a few days back and I was like ok.... A bit out of the ordinary nothing really special and then I saw it on gizmodo again and now it is here... more yawn. Is there no more original content in the interwebs these days?

[Preet788]

04:59 AM on 09/28/2011

Amy Shackleton paints without paint brushes - http://bit.ly/o3gGoy

[Pitter2]

04:50 AM on 09/28/2011

WATCH: This Artist Doesn't Use Brushes - http://bit.ly/nvlljK

[independent registered]

02:37 AM on 09/28/2011

the artist has a great rear too!

[morris111]

08:39 AM on 09/28/2011

Yes, a TRUE work of art....

[donitacurioso]

02:34 AM on 09/28/2011

She's developed a unique process. I'll bet these paintings look better "in person" than they do here. I think it's pretty cool.

[DickShock]

02:01 AM on 09/28/2011

just more effect as art, a brush is a tool, the bottle goes squirt, squirt... drip drip. boring.

[mxytsplyk]

12:11 AM on 09/28/2011

Excellent work made even more impressive by the video insight into her technique!