Question: How do you create a large exquisite expressionist painting in one session? My friend Paul LaFlam is an artist in St. Louis, and he would give an answer something like this: Pour several gallons of hardware store house paint onto a big horizontal wooden canvass and then “brush” the paint with torn pieces of cardboard, making sure to let your painting dry for at least three days, because it is 1/8″ deep. The layers of the paint interact with one another, and “the paint does much of the work itself.” Paul offered to let me videotape his unusual process awhile back, and we finished up editing the videotape today. Check it out.

Fast forward to January 2021, Paul advises me that this painting has evolved to this: