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S_V_H Up On the Roof Final image

12/17/201312/31/2020 / Scott Von Holzen

Up On The Roof is signed and ready to go on sale.  You can buy this artwork HERE, or a print HERE. This artwork uses a technique where I have lighten my musical notes as they flow across the canvases from left to right. The whole idea of this work was for the viewer to … Continue reading S_V_H Up On the Roof Final image

S_V_H Up On the Roof image5

11/25/201311/25/2013 / Scott Von Holzen

Up On The Roof is coming together.  As you move across this work, the mood of the artwork changes, along with the physical movement of the canvas which is a total of five inches closer to the viewer as you move across the work from left to right. It is impossible to see this in … Continue reading S_V_H Up On the Roof image5

S_V_H Up On the Roof image4

11/16/2013 / Scott Von Holzen

Up On The Roof is a Classic Pop song written by Carole Kin, and first recorded by the Drifters in 1963. Years later it made it back to the charts with a recording by James Taylor in 1979.  I picked this song to paint, for some reason, somewhere, at some time,  I had good feelings … Continue reading S_V_H Up On the Roof image4

S_V_H UP On the Roof image2 & 3

10/27/2013 / Scott Von Holzen

Up on The Roof Image 2 UP on the Roof Image 3 Up on the Roof is a Classic pop song from the sixties and on. There has been a major change that you may find hard to see in the full images.  In the first image  the first two canvases butt together.  In image two, and … Continue reading S_V_H UP On the Roof image2 & 3

S_V_H UP On the Roof image1

10/13/201310/13/2013 / Scott Von Holzen

UP on the Roof is a new small work, 72 inches in length.  I decided to start this work while I wait the arrival of canvases needed for the next artwork in the Vivaldi Four Seasons series, Autumn Allegro 3rd movement. Why paint Up on the Roof? That is a question that is as hard to … Continue reading S_V_H UP On the Roof image1

S_V_H You Raise Me Up image2

11/23/2013 / Scott Von Holzen

You Raise Me up consists of six panels almost 100 inches in length. In this image you see that I have added the musical flow using different shades of gold paint, a common practice with the Christmas art, along with Cobalt blue.  Next up  I will be filling in more details of the music adding … Continue reading S_V_H You Raise Me Up image2

S_V_H Your Song, final music rough cut

12/29/202112/31/2021 / Scott Von Holzen

This is the third and last of my cover music rough cuts using the notation software, Notion. The sheet music will be the worksheet that will guide me through the building of this artwork. My artwork musical covers are about the music and not so much about the lyrics. It is about creating a portrait … Continue reading S_V_H Your Song, final music rough cut

S_V_H No Rain Final Image

08/28/201505/31/2017 / Scott Von Holzen

This is the final image a tribute painting to the music of Blind Melon, called No Rain.  What is different about this artwork is that I did not follow my normal flow pattern for the music:  horizontally from left to right. Rarely does it move vertically, which this artwork does.  In No Rain the music … Continue reading S_V_H No Rain Final Image

S_V_H Love is All Around Final Image

06/22/201405/31/2017 / Scott Von Holzen

  This artistic style brings this found 60s peace symbol, and the faint memory of  this 60s Pop Art sculpture by Robert Indiana,   and these new pair of walking shoes, that have improve my time,     all together to create this image, that is the word ‘Love’ on a small added canvas that is … Continue reading S_V_H Love is All Around Final Image

S_V_H Love is All Around image5

06/17/201406/17/2014 / Scott Von Holzen / 2 Comments

  I am finally starting to feel that this work is taking on its own uniqueness. This work started out with a unique physical look that I liked. The problem has been how to paint this love song in a way that expressing the love in this music in a way that connects this painting … Continue reading S_V_H Love is All Around image5

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What about Music?

“A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.”
Miles Davis

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.” Charlie Parker

“Music is the universal language … it brings people closer together.”
Ella Fitzgerald

“A great song doesn’t attempt to be anything — it just is.  Jay-Z

“Music is either good or it isn’t, it’s not someone’s opinion.” Toscanini / Tony Bennett

“My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being…When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups…I want to speak to their souls.” John Coltrane

“Music is the universal language of mankind” Henry W Longfellow

“I good thing abut music, when it hits you, you feel no pain” Bob Marley

“Music is the sound of universal laws promulgated” Henry Thoreau

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley

“Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound” Ralph Vaughan Williams

“Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music” Jimi Hendrix

“Music is life, and, like it, inextinguishable” Carl Nielson

“The pianoforte is the most perfect of all musical instruments: its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry” George Bernard Shaw

“If music be the food of love, play on” William Shakespeare

“Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it” John Lennon

“There’s not a string attuned to mirth, but has its chord in melancholy” Thomas Hood

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy” Ludwig van Beethoven

“There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together” Thomas Beecham

“The best way to get to knowing any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music” Woody Guthrie

“Music can change the world because it can change people” Bono

“You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly” Hank Williams

“You have to blame Thomas Edison for today’s rock ‘n’ roll. He invented electricity” Stan Getz

“I’ve said that playing the Blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed” B. B. King

“I don’t know anything about music. In my line your don’t have to” Elvis Presley

“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die” Paul Simon

“Where words fail, music speaks” Hans Christian Andersen

“Music happens to be an art form that transcends language’ Herbie Hancock

“I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds” Dizzy Gillespie

“Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together” Edgar Winter

“My music had roots which I’d dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil” Ray Charles

“Music is the soul of language” Max Heindel

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” Friedrich Nietzsche

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