Category: Classical

S_V_H Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons – Summer-adagio” image4

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Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons – Summer – adagio,  painting number four of  thirteen needed to complete this series. This artwork consists of 5 canvases with a total length of 12 feet (3.66m).

This painting is coming along, slowly, and will reach a month of work in two more days. This project is similar to the last Autumn piece.  A regret is that taking this long of time to complete a work, at times, can  take a toll on enthusiasm and concentration. Still, I have not found a way or the need to round the corners. Surprisingly, the need to complete this series has not diminished. It is as if Time does not matter, at less when painting Vivaldi.

Listening to Pearl Jam – Gone

Bill Evans – Young And Foolish

Next up is there are four eighth notes, represented in music as this symbol.


Unlike the Birthday painting that also had eighth notes, this time, the search is on to find a new way to depict them.  Of course that will take extra time.

Listening to Red Vines – Aimee Mann

Electric Light Orchestra – Rock And Roll is King

Seal – Don’t Cry

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Vivaldi twelve feet in length.  The first photo taken with two White Lighting flashes, using white shoot through umbrellas bounced off the studio ceiling. No matter how I worked the image in Photoshop the orange, used in the above upper images, appears red in color.  It is difficult to duplicate the shades of acrylic paint, and  frustrating  with the amount of time lost, trying to fix the image.  A good likeness for the Cloud that compares well with the artwork will always be a challenge.

The next move was to take the painting outside, and place it in the shade. Looking at this second image there is a difference: the orange is actually orange.  Although both of these images where shot RAW and adjusted, there is something about that huge natural light source that has its advantages.

This video certainly is interesting, in its imperfections, and spontaneity.  The canon 7D  made this video in one take.  Can you tell.  There is only one way to go from here and I really do hope you check back whether you “appreciate” the effort or not.

Listening to Smokin’ Joe Kubek – I Saw It Coming

This is certainly an odd-shaped painting.  Notice that little 4 by 4inch canvas on the left top that depicts that one high note.  Here is another video for this music. The painting comes into play at about 1:25 seconds into the music, and is the third rumble.

The Birthday painting on this last Tuesday, and the continuing business at work, did drained me throughout the rest of the week.  I will get back on track slowly on Monday, and gain momentum on this fourth in a series of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons,  as the week progresses.  That is usually how it works.

Some Final Thoughts on the Birthday painting:
The painting will be strung and taken to work for display.  Not much will come of that, but at less an artwork moves out the door. I do not see the Birthday painting as that creative of a piece. The thought was that since everything goes so much faster, on that one day,  that the opportunity to get crazy with new ideas, would just happen.  It did not happen.  Instead this years Birthday painting turned out as a continuation of last years Van Gogh Birthday painting. It is what it is.

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Listening to Delbert McClinton – I’ve Got Dreams To Remember

Watt Ever – Phil Keaggy

Chic – Le Freak

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S_V_H Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons – Summer-adagio” image2

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Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons – Summer adagio. This artwork is 12 feet(3.66m) in length by 36 inches(.91m) in height.  It is awkward to handle which I learned when I tried to remove this artwork from the easels and it swung up and hit the ceiling. The work consists of four canvases, so far, with the largest being  three by 5 feet. The words chosen come from the Vivaldi sonnets of which this is one translation from Wikisource:

” The fear of lightning and fierce thunder
Robs his tired limbs of rest
As gnats and flies buzz furiously around.”

Of course, this artwork is going to concentrate on the “lighting” and “thunder” parts of this poem. There might be a splash of “gnats” here and there, but that part of the sonnet does not inspire me.

Listening to:
Just in Time – Sonny Rollins
For You Blue – The Beatles
South City Midnight Lady – The Doobie Brothers

Here is the  link to the music, from an earlier blog entry.  On the left side of the full image you see and can feel the soft, reflective, sad, soothing  music. Then as the canvas expands, to the right, the thunder makes its appearance.  The artwork , starts just before the third rumble. Those light blue horizontal lines represent lighting. This is not a complicated piece of music and that may well be reflected in the end appearance and the shorten time needed to complete this artwork. Ahead there will be some interesting work done with the thunder and the overhead beams that are only now a drawing.  Already,  updates have added depth and an interest to those soft green circle notes.

THE  2012 BIRTHDAY PAINTING TO BE COMPLETED, ALL IN ONE DAY, ON JULY 31ST THIS COMING TUESDAY: This  Blog Link details how you can name a piece of music that you would like to see painted on that day.  If your choice wins, you then will received a signed, large-scale photograph, as a thank you.  I need more musical choices to choose from, get involved.

Here are the latest suggestions, with comments:

Simon and Garfunkel – I am a rock OR The Boxer
Beatles – let it be
Rod Stewart – Forever young
The White Stripes – Jolene (Dolly’s rendition was familiar to me growing up; but I like the edge in the White Stripes version

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