Tag: Adele

S_V_H Make you feel my Love final image

Published on by Scott Von Holzen
Make you feel my Love ≈ H45xL30xD9 inches
The project, Make you feel my love, the video recap and other things that come to mind.

Make you feel my Love and Flowers where both started in 2024, and finished in 2025. Whatever happened to “We will score in ’64, even ’24? Where has the time gone? Back to the Art.

I like the feminine colors chosen for this music. Compared Adele to Myles Cryus’s Flowers on the left to see these singers’ differences. I am all in on my handling of color. What I am feeling is that I control the effects of color, therefore denying any one color to dominate. My goal in these artworks is a mix of abstraction of colors that flow together. Let on close inspection show the depth of my use of color and not just the color itself.

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I can speak through thoughts in these summary videos, for there is no downside to my art. All these videos exist mainly to document this journey without a concern for views, likes, or an obscure chance of discovery. The question that follows is if there is no monetary or social gain, why do it?

My best guess is that I do it for the Art. When I am spending my valuable time and limited monies, I start each project knowing not to expect any of the other 8 plus billion people walking this planet will think as I do about Art. I kept steadily stumbling ahead in the search for the ultimate display of my “God-Given Talents” (The only positive take away from my youth education and Catholic teachings).

That then is why I have over 19 years, been on a lifetime journey of living that goal, that in this moment appears to be all for the Art. The Art, and not about a vision, skill, creativeness, uniqueness, originality, money, fame, or having a butterfly effect on the history of Art.

I have mentioned my art motives many times in a plenty of my blog posts. That brings up another question of why keep repeating the obvious? I do not know that answer beyond a thought. After 19 years, my preaching is clearly not being heard. Maybe that is to be expected. I have always known, never expecting, it would be easy.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H 2nd images Miley & Adele

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To get this project going, I had already started with a canvas base color of light orange that luckily worked with the image above I found later. Finding an artworks color theme comes after first choosing the music. For me it is important to learn an artist’s choice of colors to better connect this art to the music. At first, my search for Adele’s live performances of Make you feel my love all showed her dressed in black. That was a disappointment. I then widen my live performance search to other songs of hers. I noticed quickly the color of turquoise in her lighting. Then I found my color jackpot in the above image from Adele’s video, of Send My Love. There was the color turquoise, but also shades of red, pinks, greens, and pale beige. They all show up in the image below.

In the center is Make you Feel my Love. Left is Bryan Adams, I do it for you, and on the right is The Scientist, with the notes from All too Well leaning against the wall.

I have a deadline of January 4th 2025 to submit to the ARC gallery call. Therefore, I physically built together both artworks for Make you Feel My Love, and Flowers. I first completed the artwork for Make you Feel. Because of my limited time, I then switched to Flowers by Miley Cyrus. Once I complete that artwork, I will return to finishing the cover music for both works.

Flowers on the wall left of the Adams and Adele artworks.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H First Image of Flowers

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

As mentioned previously, I was not at first convinced to paint Miley Cyrus’s song, “Flowers,” but I wanted to add additional music by women to my submission for the ARC Gallery. I was little surprise at this choice of this music for I have never painted a song so current. My general thinking is to choose only music that has stood “the test of time.” For example, I have another unusual second current project, Adele’s song, “Make You Feel My Love,” She released this music sixteen years ago. What convinced my choice of “Flowers,” were the statistics on this music, notable eight consecutive weeks as number one. For color ideas I watched Miley’s official video of “Flowers.” She started the video dress in the color of gold (also mentioned in the music). And ended with her dressed in black. I liked the video’s start. But found the middle “exercise part,” while understandable, excessive. That video left me disappointed. That changed.

2024 Grammys

Today, I searched for another live video of Miley Cyrus performing “Flowers” and luckily found her 2024 Grammy’s performance. I thought she looked fabulous, and her presence was outstanding.

As for the other project, “Make me feel my love.” Here is the 16-year-old link to the official video of Adele’s rendition of “Make you feel my Love.” This video and every live version by Adele I watched is similar, slow moving, right up to this 2024 performance that for me was disappointing. The sheet music lists 76 beats per minute. For the draft cover music of “Make you feel my Love,” I increased the beats to 90. I had to. Adele’s pace drags this exceptional Bob Dylan song to an exhausted but grateful Verse 4.

Here is the first image of the projects “Flowers,” and “Make you feel my Love.”

Left to right: Make you feel my love, Flowers, All too Well, and a partial The scientist.

Scott Von Holzen