Painting With Light

Alex May manipulating elements during his 75 minute ‘Painting With Light’ live video mapping and painting art performance in the South Tank at Tate Modern, London.

I’ve written a new tutorial that explains how to do basic video masking in Painting With Light.

Version 1.0.3 is still under development, although this is a bit slow at the moment as I’m preparing to use it at a rather exciting event at the end of the month.

Please continue to send me any suggestions or bugs you might encounter in the mean time.

I just made this music video for my brother’s band Hands Make Fire using Painting With Light to draw Louis’ face filmed singing along to the track over various objects including eggs, raw bacon, and Play-Doh shapes.

Hands Make Fire website

Parting Shot is available on iTunes

Spent some time trying to package Painting With Light for Ubuntu into a more system friendly format.

The result is a .deb package rather than an archive of the dependencies.

To install, download version 1.0.2, open a Terminal and type the following:

cd <where you downloaded the file>
sudo dpkg -i PaintingWithLight-1.0.2.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

Please report problems and/or feedback in the forums

Carousel is an award winning charity that facilitates people with a learning disability to reach their potential in the arts.  These are a few photos from the Painting With Light workshop that they hired me to run in January 2013.

If you are interested in hiring me to run a Painting With Light workshop then contact me here

PaintingWithLight 1.0.2

Painting With Light version 1.0.2 is now available for download.

Version 1.0.2 for Windows

Version 1.0.2 for OSX (10.5+)

Version 1.0.2 for Ubuntu (12.04+) (coming soon!)

This version comes with the often requested feature of being able to see what you’re drawing in both the output and work area windows.

The Windows version also has a new Video Input plugin that allows you to use live video from your video camera as a texture source for your paintings.  Sadly it isn’t available for OSX yet because apparently Apple doesn’t like software written in certain programming languages accessing the camera so another solution is currently being sought.

It also has a simplified plugin installation system and many behind the scenes improvements.

The Ubuntu 1.0.2 version is undergoing additional testing and will be available for download soon and should support the Video Input plugin just fine.

Please leave any feedback you have about the new version in the forum.

An improvised and participatory site specific installation created from found objects and multiple elements of collected video footage, combined using the artist’s own custom video mapping software “Painting With Light”, using a single video projector.

The installation was created over two days at the blinc digital arts festival in Conwy, Wales in October 2012.