Have you ever made a painting?  If you’re a regular reader to this blog, there’s probably a decent chance that you have.  Ok.  Have you ever made 29,000 paintings?  Probably not.  Aleksandr Petrov has.  And that was just for one project – The Old Man and the Sea.  Petrov finger-paints onto glass panels with slow-drying oil paint, photographs each painting, and stitches them all together to form a beautiful, painterly video.  I haven’t made it through the whole film–it’s fairly long–but you can begin to appreciate the work instantly…

If you want to see more of the process (in Russian of course), here’s a video of Petrov talking about his methods–just be sure to turn on closed captioning on Youtube if you want to understand anything.