Painting is Cool

I was poking around on youtube and saw this video of a time-lapsed painting an artist named Louis Smith. I thought it was really cool being able to see the blocks of different colors change into shaded areas and highlights and then into something almost photographic. It's insane, I need to learn to paint like this.

I think he has a new site or blog on wordpress, the link is www.paintaportrait.org

Here's the video :)

(the video may be cut off on one side, so it's probably better to watch it on youtube, or on his site along with a few other nifty things he has there)