Author: Scott Von Holzen

I am currently renewing an artistic adventure that first started in 1974, and ended in the early 1980's. A casual comment restarted the quest in art in 2004. Now, at night I am surrounded by artworks done and in progress, shelves full of art books, my music collection playing through a classic NAD amp and a pair of solid, classic free standing speakers, my piano, violin, blues guitar, and saxophone. So all is musical no matter what I am up to in the studio. Since I was a kid I have had the urge to be creative Now, in my later sixties, I am determine to know. I want to follow this to the end to see what these paintings, and all this music amounts to. This is probably the last great adventure I will have, so I am all in. So, watch out for nonstop music, canvases with multiple panels, with paint spread thick or dribbled on, words with meaning, and results that will challenge, push the meaning of music, and may even splash back. This blog's real purpose is to document my story in the making, and you are welcomed to follow along. Thank you for your support. Scotty Von Holzen

Chopin’s Nocturne Op.9 No.1 image 16

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Small update with the photo showing about 6 feet of the canvas.  This is a difficult canvas.  Sometimes it appears that different combos of colors are placed just to challenge the following days  efforts.  Maybe it is practice.  Maybe it is what art is: a slow awakening to what has to be done, no matter what is first thought, hoped, believed to be, or wanted.  It is the wanted that gets in the way the most.

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Chopin’s Nocturne Op. 9 No.1 image 15

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Close up image of this 12 foot canvas.   This work has been filed under the Tag of Art, but there is a wondering…….hum?…there seems to be a considerable amount of blogging to this Tag that may have little to do with ART.   Yet, something to consider is that maybe what has been defined in the past as Art, is quite different from what appears, or wants to appear as current Art today on this Art Tag.  Really, a closer look is required which may reveal some obscure but artful meaning to many of these postings, but so far it has been a bad read.  More scanning and more thoughtful questioning will be required before moving on that hopefully may not be necessary.

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Chopin’s Nocturne Op.9 No.1 image 14

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This is a close up of the first section of this canvas. Let’s get creative, and let the colors fly. That is what was stuck with this work until it just made its feeling known. So here we go. Its is difficult to articulate how creative decisions are made, it happens when the wall is up, and there is only one solution and that is to go through it. Every time, go through it, with every work, through every frustration, for the alternative is not going to happen. Not this time.

Next post will be Sunday Night.

Scott Von Holzen