Category: Modern

S_V_H Thunder Road image1

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

Thunder “its a town full of losers. I’m pulling out of here to win.”  Hey, nice words, probably will not be a part of this work, but they speak to courage and conviction.

This work is three panel: the sides are 3 feet by four wide, with a center one foot wide by 3 foot tall. The base color are Burnt Sienna, lightened Burnt Umber, and Transparent Brown Iron Oxide, with a little Red Iron Oxide.

The browns just seemed the right colors to start with for this music.  The background can evolve considerably over the first few days, pushed by the feel and the look.  Sometimes it just an exercise  to see what a particular color can do.  It is a guess, and many times there is a shock seeing that the results differ considerably from the beginning expectation.  So it goes.

Last night it took a few hours to find the energy and the mindset to start this work.  Working through the physical and mental, fatigue of the day, was the motivation that there needed to be something put down so in the morning, just before leaving for work, it could be view, and there would be something there to actually look at.

Scott von Holzen

S_V_H Stand By Me finalImage

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

Stand has come to and end, Thursday evening.  The heart is moving on, and the art seems satisfied.  The night was spent preening.   Great art requires care, understanding, and disciple. Great art knows when it is the time to let go.  All artist who are worth their brushes, know this.  If this is a great work of art, time, luck, and a good promotional story, will all certainly help. But there is no real worry, the art knowns, the art cares nothing about the fragilities of humans, or its own worth.  Art exists to make living worth just that. Art knowns that its greatest worth is in its existence.

Although Stand By Me is done it is not finished.  For some reason the eighth note, just before the word darling, a drawn line is going to be left as is.  No work is obsessed over, as far as painterly perfection, and this time it was decided to make that obvious.

Now, time to move on to one of the greatest songs of my generation, Thunder Road.  Thunder Road will challenge Hallelujah.  That is what it is telling,

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H Stand By Me image7

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

Stand By Me is should be finish this week.  It is Monday night and Mondays are never easy, switching priorities, but this work is moving at a respectable pace.  Stand is starting to define itself. The beginning of its separation became obvious in the drawing of the tie and the slur. The use of Prussian Blue, after giving up on reds, and greens, just seemed to work. The lines held there own considering the original drawing was done to just get some ideas of what would stand out. That drawing has been left, as is, for a few days, just to see if only minor tweaking might be required. That might be too presumptuous.  To see the difference in styles look at the tie and slur from Hallelujah, below,then click on Stand to see the full image. Stands lines are stark, predictable and moody, while with Hallelujah the tie and slur are quit flamboyant and outgoing.  Not sure if that makes any sense, this artist never looks at any of these works trying to drop them into any categories.  They would not like that.

There was, or is, a problem with the second eighth rest, in that much of the space it needed was taken to create more space for the notes.  Not sure if Burnt Sienna is that final color for these two objects, but it appears, for sure, that the second rest is just going to be allowed to overlap.  There may be a need to add some personality to these two small objects, but for now there are no ideas.

The background may be worked to create added interest, and drama.  There will be mild surprises, as the process of letting go of this art work starts. It just might be easier then to just kick it here and there, hoping to give this painting the uniqueness it strives for.

Scott Von Holzen