Category: contemporary art

S_V_H Bach BWW 1014, Adagio image7

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

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This is image 6

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This is the current image, image 7

Bach Sonata BWV 1014 Adagio.  As can be seen this artwork is coming together.  The background is becoming what it is, and the music is beginning to shine above. I can create movement with the shafts, especially with the use of darker colors. This contrast with the notes and the background creates a dramatic vertical movement to the music. 

The colors for the shafts where fairly easy to decide:  I wanted a darker color with some contrast added.  The easy choice was an old favorite Phthalo Blue Red shade.  The beams where more difficult. I tried using a Red Magenta, and then spreading white across, followed up with a violet-blue.  Not good enough.  I removed the paint and played with a couple of other ideas, before deciding to stay in the reds for color.  The only decent contrasting Red was Cadmium Orange? I spread it heavy over the Pyrrole Red, and after it was dry, it looked good.  Good enough to leave it alone.

Next up, what will put this work over-the-top, are the Ties.  Does that not sound exciting?  It will be, once you see my Ties.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H Bach BWW 1014, Adagio image5

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Bach Sonata BWV 1014 Adagio, with this image showing the musical flow.  I really like this stage of this artwork. You have the painted background and just above it you have the music floating across the canvas.  In the beginnings the music flow resembled musical notes.  I quickly began to elevate my  notes, giving them more stature and a greater dramatic look.  The problem with that look, even when they where almost  vertically, was that they still resembled  sheet music notes.  That changed when I moved to the circle.  Now, that I have shaded these circles, I have noticed a new sensation.  I see the music flow, but I am also seeing much more: I look at the music as it flows across the background, and what I now see are little moons.  It is almost spiritual, looking at the musical flow and seeing something else totally different form music, but still bound to it.  I am not sure where this comes from, beyond the fact that as a boy I followed the space race with Russia, and knew all the names of the planets that revolved around the sun.

Well enough with the space race, and the mystical, it is time to give the music a little body and soul.  that is up next.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H Bach BWW 1014, Adagio image4

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

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Bach BWV 1014 Adagio, 220 cm by 130 cm,  all on one canvas.  What you are seeing different from image 3 are the white bands, and the Azurite blue bands in the center area.  What you do not see is the three hours of work it took to get this final look of the background.  Originally, I had two large bands of blue.  I then tried an old technique, by using a wall paper, or plaster brush with short bristles, that I pull across the Azurite.  I did dark lines of Prussian, and then later I added white bands to counter the darkness of the two wide blue bands.  I stared at the results, and finally decided, that the big blue bands were too much.  Now, the background is better balanced, pushed back towards the lighter look, the preferred look, and is ready for the music.

Tonight and tomorrow, I will be putting the music in place, to see that it fits and then I believe I will be filling them in and shading them.  Next up will be the shafts, and the beams, of the music.

We will quickly see how it goes.

Scott Von Holzen