Category: thoughts on being an artist

S_V_H Amazing Grace image4

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

This is a third of  the painting on the right end side, image appears to be slightly darker. Currently, there is some listening going  on, through the many versions of this music, to better grasp this song which may seem obvious and pointless to most listeners.

This music has been heard many times over many years, and  with all of the huge variety of emotions it generates touching many, how can any painting represent those feelings?  How does any painting speak to all of that?

It may be possible in the relationships of the color: color against color, mixed with, touching, bouncing off of, soft and hidden, loud and dominate, feisty and arrogant, loose and free.  Color that demands attention, or shyly blends away.   That and more put all in on this canvas, and hopefully displaying music that can be touched; music that can be felt.

Personal thoughts: During the day the hours are spent working for the man. Some days take fragments of the night away, shredding the art into  interrupted, disturbed, distracted, and lost pieces of creativity.  Some days are held together by fear, that drives the incentive to paint, paint, and paint, to find the other way.  Some days will always be forgotten, but the art builds, builds, and builds, with feeling, without the obvious, with all the emotions, but never pointless.

Scott Von Holzen

Eyes On The Prize

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

This canvas was stalled.  At times I felt I was going through the motions.  Painting is like any other job, it has it routines.  And I do not mind following certain proven steps with each canvas,  proven effective procedures, which opens up more time for me to try different ideas.

But what happens is although I enjoy having some standard steps to follow something inside catches that and stops me hard against the wall if I am just applying pretty paint and not understanding just what the canvas is trying to become.   Each of these works demands its own identity, and I am constantly reminded by that when my efforts fall short. Like each of us even a work of art must find its own way.

Scott

Eyes on the prize

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

I am posting two images of this artwork call Eyes for short.  The earlier session shows how much ideas involve as you begin the search to find the comfort in what is being depicted.

I love art and I love music…..if putting these two art forms together is silly and flawed, or just plain brilliant, I am far from confident that either way is correct.  I do know that knowing the answer, would not change the passion, and the driven need to continue this journey one canvas at a time.  You never known what the next song  put down in paint will be unless I do it.

Scott Von Holzen