WEBVTT 00:00:04.772 --> 00:00:09.522 [hums and whistles] 00:00:09.522 --> 00:00:11.518 Come here 00:00:11.518 --> 00:00:13.542 [whistles] 00:00:13.573 --> 00:00:18.150 The enthusiasm when she comes is amazing [laughs] 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:23.361 [OFF-SCREEN INTERVIEWER] "So is there a routine for you?" 00:00:23.361 --> 00:00:29.198 Pretty much guaranteed that i'm going to go to the studio, at some point or several times in the day 00:00:31.890 --> 00:00:40.970 [whistles] 00:00:42.355 --> 00:00:45.346 This is going to be exciting, to have-- 00:00:45.346 --> 00:00:48.439 This new big surface. 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:51.107 [whistles] 00:00:52.008 --> 00:00:53.425 "Eddie Martinez Whistles While He Works" 00:00:53.910 --> 00:01:01.183 [sound of electric sander against canvas] 00:01:23.355 --> 00:01:27.717 Alright, let's see if I can't get a little sketch up on here. 00:01:27.717 --> 00:01:28.998 [shakes spray can] 00:01:29.028 --> 00:01:31.725 [Whistles] 00:01:31.725 --> 00:01:35.208 [Sound of spray can] 00:01:35.208 --> 00:01:37.644 I learned a massive amount from graffitti 00:01:37.644 --> 00:01:40.293 that I've taken into the studio, 00:01:40.293 --> 00:01:42.338 [whistles] 00:01:42.338 --> 00:01:43.675 [sound of spray paint] 00:01:43.675 --> 00:01:46.349 in terms of scale and how to make large marks 00:01:46.349 --> 00:01:51.679 and how to take a small drawing and make it large. 00:01:51.679 --> 00:01:55.214 I mean, that's totally invaluable, the skill set. 00:01:56.598 --> 00:01:57.796 Not bad. 00:01:58.334 --> 00:02:02.168 [sound of spray can] 00:02:02.199 --> 00:02:06.678 It's sort of like a boxing ring in here--it's a very physical process. 00:02:06.771 --> 00:02:08.088 [sound of spray paint] 00:02:08.088 --> 00:02:10.174 Maybe I'm a little addicted to that. 00:02:10.174 --> 00:02:10.979 [sound of spray paint] 00:02:10.979 --> 00:02:15.369 It's a real part of my life--it's a real way for me to work things out, 00:02:15.369 --> 00:02:18.751 outside of just the actual painting. 00:02:18.751 --> 00:02:21.219 [sound of spray can] 00:02:33.145 --> 00:02:35.715 God damn it, come on. 00:02:39.485 --> 00:02:44.264 I might be one of the most impatient people in the world. 00:02:44.264 --> 00:02:51.704 Certainly, at times I can't control how the anxiety and impatience and aggressive energy comes out. 00:02:52.874 --> 00:03:00.924 It's best when it happens in here, so I like to try and harness that cause no one can judge me, or... 00:03:12.003 --> 00:03:14.631 [sound of feet shuffling] 00:03:22.522 --> 00:03:27.348 I do have to trick myself into getting through parts of a painting. 00:03:27.348 --> 00:03:31.912 [dog barking] 00:03:31.912 --> 00:03:37.718 Come on, Fanny, come on. 00:03:37.718 --> 00:03:44.312 If it gets to a point where I know a painting's going to be a painting, sometimes there's that real sense of chore, 00:03:45.696 --> 00:03:49.396 So then i'll have to, like, drink a bottle of wine [laughs] 00:03:49.396 --> 00:03:51.180 Or do something fun, 00:03:51.180 --> 00:03:52.737 Like walking around Greenpoint. 00:03:54.399 --> 00:04:06.728 [sound of tapping rhythmically] 00:04:06.728 --> 00:04:20.274 [whistles] 00:04:20.274 --> 00:04:27.994 The best thing, and the most freeing feeling for me, is when I'm just moving the brush and making those strokes 00:04:27.994 --> 00:04:31.963 and am not standing back across the room looking at it. 00:04:34.041 --> 00:04:36.574 it's when I'm completely lost in there. 00:04:36.574 --> 00:04:40.800 [sound of brush against canvas] 00:04:41.001 --> 00:04:46.920 There's that sense that I can express any kind of movement or action or noise or whatever i want in there. 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:58.479 [sound of brush scraping against canvas] 00:04:58.525 --> 00:04:59.814 [sighs] 00:05:08.308 --> 00:05:17.978 [sound of foot tapping lightly] 00:05:22.225 --> 00:05:23.506 I think that's it. 00:05:23.506 --> 00:05:27.802 I think if I start painting I'm going to start making mistakes. 00:05:27.802 --> 00:05:28.394 "Yeah" 00:05:28.501 --> 00:05:30.049 Which is fine, but i dont want to. 00:05:30.125 --> 00:05:31.154 "Yeah" 00:05:34.031 --> 00:05:39.830 But the composition is working and that's exciting. I love when i get a first composition. That's pretty rare-- 00:05:39.830 --> 00:05:43.265 A first take composition that i want to go with. 00:05:45.018 --> 00:05:48.235 Now I said that and I see something I hate but... 00:05:48.235 --> 00:05:49.677 "What do you hate?" 00:05:49.677 --> 00:05:53.566 This shoulder shape here, it should come into like, 00:05:53.566 --> 00:05:54.841 it should drop off, like, there. 00:05:54.841 --> 00:05:56.580 [sound of pallet knife scraping against canvas] 00:05:58.642 --> 00:06:06.581 When I can make a drawing in 25 minutes and be really moved by it, that's what I want to be painting. 00:06:09.873 --> 00:06:13.240 But I dont know how to do it yet, which is exciting, 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:17.861 Because if I already knew how to do it, that'd be kind of depressing [laughs] 00:06:17.924 --> 00:06:21.311 [sings "I live my life on..."] 00:06:26.776 --> 00:06:34.360 [whistles lightly]