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Dutch artist sells mind blowing time-lapse painting that took almost 3 years to complete

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Source: Facebook/ThijmeTermaatOfficial

Self taught artist Thijme Termaat used a combination of time-lapse and stop-motion photography to create surreal curved mural — watch closely you can even see his hair grow during the video.

Unique time-lapse painting sells for an undisclosed figure

Dutch artist Thijme Termaat is a great painter but with competition in today’s art world being so fierce, sometimes greatness alone is not enough; you need an edge. So in 2010, self-taught Thijme decided to create a time-lapse work to stand out from the crowd. He spent 2.5 years painting and making the video below. Eventually hard work paid off: his video already reached tens of millions of views across numerous social media websites, and on 27 August 2020, Termaat shared on Facebook that the magnificent artwork with a unique provenance had sold to an anonymous buyer for an undisclosed figure. It’s a truly amazing piece of art history.

His amazing three-minute video, I Paint, was constructed using simple, stop-motion and time-lapse techniques and no digital effects. It could have been made, as Thijme points out, a century ago. It would sometimes take him several days to construct a single frame and his output averaged one minute per year. Once it was complete, he posted it on Youtube and within three days it was being seen in almost every country on earth and soon had millions of views.
Thijme is a self-taught artist who lives in a very small, rural town in Northern Holland. His amazing three-minute video, I Paint, was constructed using simple, stop-motion and time-lapse techniques and no digital effects. It could have been made, as Thijme points out, a century ago. It would sometimes take him several days to construct a single frame and his output averaged one minute per year. Once it was complete, he posted it on Youtube and within three days it was being seen in almost every country on earth and soon had millions of views. Source: Facebook/ThijmeTermaat

The whole movie is filled with illusion, imagination and manifestation

In an interview with Jonathan Zap for Reality Sandwich, Termaat described why and how he made the video:

"The inspiration to make the video directly relates back to my fascination for truth and its connection with the psyche. The whole movie is filled with illusion, imagination and manifestation. Time speeds up and slows down, paintings seem to be 3D all of a sudden and at the moment when you think you see through the illusion another layer of illusion unfolds. It is like a rollercoaster-ride through my mind. The video mimics this, blurring between psyche and 5-sense impressions.”

“It took me roughly three years to complete I Paint. I made it entirely alone, without any help and without a script. It is a combination of time-lapse and stop-motion, just still pictures with no digital effects. In fact, one could have made such a movie a hundred years ago. With the intention to make an inspiring video animating this blurred reality-experience, I just started working slowly towards the end of the film, frame-by-frame. Some frames took me whole days to create. If you look closely you can see my hair growing about six inches before I put it in a knot in the middle of the film."

See more of Thijme Termaat’s work on Facebook, YouTube, or his Website.

Source: RealitySandwich

Thijme Termaat is a self-taught artist. Source: Facebook/ThijmeTermaat
Many of his works have a surreal element. Source: Facebook/ThijmeTermaat
The artist at work on ‘I Paint’ Source: Facebook/ThijmeTermaat
I Paint Official Thijme Termaat video #ipaint STOP MOTION/TIMELAPSE — No CGI was used to create this video. Source: YouTube/ThijmeTermaat
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