Losing My Edge from the Music by LCD Soundsystem. This artwork composed of three canvases is about forty-six inches long by about thirty-four inches in height. All I am doing here is to putting down some paint down, to cover the white canvas, and that fits the music theme. To keep it simple, which is important when time constraints are an issue, I picked purple for all three canvases. Nothing special with the technique mostly just having fun.
Scott Von Holzen
Losing My Edge is this years 2015 Birthday Painting. I will be starting this work today and finishing it tomorrow on my Birthday. I have done this tradition for a several years. In the past I have started and finished my Birthday work all in one day, on my Birthday. This year, I am going to be kinder to me. I have proved I can paint a work all in one day, but for the most part that time has been extremely demanding and stressful. One years I finished the work just before midnight. So enough is enough. Now, it is time to have fun for my Birthday. And anyway in the past I have taken days before preparing and lately construction the work, and yes I did paint the entire work all in one day, but I spent much of the next day cleaning up the work, so that it has that finished look. This year I will be starting this work today and finishing it probably on Saturday with the clean up.
Here is the video for Losing My edge.
Scott Von Holzen
This is a small update about Sweet Little Angel. What makes this update important is that I have moved this art into a new direction. I now have the tools and the resources to let the music flow stand out from the background. I do this by using quarter-inch aspen wood. At first I was only going to do the two notes on the center panel, but quickly I could see that I have something special starting, and so the entire music flow is now made up of painted wood. This changes this art, and helps me carry out my goal to portray music more fluidly like the way music is actually played. I am on to something here, and I am going to push this technique forward with this years Birthday Painting.
Up next for today, and tomorrow is the story of my 2015 Birthday Painting which will be LCD SoundSystem’s Losing My Edge.
Scott Von Holzen
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