Andrea Petitto: Videos

Art work by Andrea Petitto that will be featured at her solo show at the Addison Art Gallery, Orleans MA. For details, see http://www.addisonart.com

This is the process of making the painting "Isolation Gardener" - a self portrait of sorts based on a photo of myself working on a micro garden during our period of isolation due to the Corona virus pandemic. Apart from taking and selecting the source material, the whole process is shown in very compressed form from sketch to finished painting. The music was added later from the YouTube royalty free music library. What I was listening to while painting was probably Shostakovich.

Artist Andrea Petitto begins with a sketch on a colorful underpainting and takes it through many stages of development. Still unfinished in this video ... more to come!
Petitto's work can be see at www.petittostudio.com or the Addison Art Gallery site at www.addisonart.com

How does an artist get started when confronted with a blank canvas? There are a million different answers to this question. This video illustrates my own strategy for creating an underpainting that I will later use to create a finished painting. The underpainting shown here took 17 minutes from start to finish, but is shown in compressed time here. Tools were, brushes, palette knives, and a Messermeister bowl scraper (found in kitchen supplies).