I received this Exhibit CALL from the ARC Gallery in Chicago, on May 12. It caught me by surprise, especially with the deadline date of June 14. This opportunity seems made for me after reading the exhibit details: “This specific call is for emerging artists. A.R.C. defines “emerging” in regard to this call, as an artist who has not yet had a solo exhibition in a major US city,…” This new exhibit was like the ARC Gallery judges must have felt bad about ignoring my Spring Entry, and they what to make up with second chances. I already have my theme “hook”. Mr. Brightside has been informed about this art exhibit, and he is standing by to assist. We have gone over the enormous amount of work I put into the Spring submission paperwork. He gave me what I requested: the good, the bad, the ugly. Of course he was nice with the good, and encouraging with the bad. As for the ugly he gave me a plan for the future. He believes we can improve my chances. This probably will be 2025s Make or Break opportunity. Brightside also suggested a goal to summit by June 10th. This ensured proper submission and receipt of the entry. That timeline would be tight for one 40 by 30 inch Standard Size artwork, like the artwork Crying. Thankfully, these two projects are much smaller in size, are are the first in my series that I call Essential. Essential artworks will be priced between sixteen and eighteen hundred dollars. Their canvas size is 30 by 24 inch wide.

For the Elton John project I found him dressed in a magenta jacket so I went with a Medium Magenta, and other magentas, black, and silver. For the project You don’t Bring me Flowers, all I had to work with was Streisand’s pant suite, and its correct color is a toss up ( I relied on the old video for the color of the base canvas). From that one color I will build the color pallet for this project. I should note I never try hard to match a video color with the artwork. I research the artist, and/or the songs’ video performance for a color theme. My vision for the colors used is a shotgun aim base color. From that foundation other added colors will spread out from there.

I have already picked the sample lyrics for “You Don’t bring me Flower’s” that will appear on the artwork. I took them from the live Grammy performance and the words chosen are not the same as my sheet music copy. I am posting these three ending song sentences: “You don’t say you need me. You don’t sing we love songs. And You don’t bring me flowers anymore.”

As for my sampling lyrics for Sorry seems to be the Hardest Word, I am working on finishing the cover music sheet music.

Scott Von Holzen