Shawn Lutz: Cape Cod painter - camera phone video interview, part 1

Two months ago I wrote about Shawn Lutz, a neighbor who is a great painter.   Yesterday, using the video recorder in my camera phone (Nokia N70), I interviewed Shawn about his work.

This is the first of the two-part video where Shawn talks about his painting, including how he started as a painter (starting with painting cars) and his painstaking techniques for oil painting that involve painting layer upon layer and varnishing as well as using very fine sandpaper and glazing.

Shawn says his technique results in not seeing any brush strokes and his works look similar to porcelain

Each painting can take four or five months to finish and he works three to four hours a day on each painting.  He tries to work on three paintings a day.

One painting shown in the inteview required about 280 hours to complete.

Listening to the video

To listen to the video, just click on the triangle on the right below the video.  To increase or decrease the volume, slide the brown bar to the right of the loudspeaker icon.  Of course, you can increase the volume on your computer, too!

The video runs 16:49 minutes.  (Unfortunately, I ended it too abruptly.  I should edit the last ten seconds or so, just at the end of where Shawn discusses where he shows his work.)

The second part of the interview is just above this one.

You may also see Shawn's Web site at Lutz Fine Art.

Comments

[Steve Baty]

I launched my blogg today and then did a search for cape cod. There is Shawn Lutz! Shawn and I shared office space on Main St. Say Hi to him from Steve Baty