Tag: Antonio Vivaldi

S_V_H Vivaldi’s Autumn allegro 3rd mvt. image2

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

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Vivaldi’s Autumn Third Movement. This painting for the Four Seasons Series falls into the timeline of late fall. I do this with each Vivaldi work in that I start trying to portray the feel of the season with the music. You will notice when looking at the larger image a lot of natural fall colors, but then again you will see colors that do not seem to fit the season. That is where the ‘I start out trying’ changes to what colors I think will work with what I have so far. What you have is my fall look, for this is a musical work not a landscape, which gives me a lot of color room.

The most difficult panel in this group of panels, so far, has been the small canvas attach on the end.  My artworks read from left to right.  I keep applying colors with my home-made squeegee, and that panel, just got uglier and messier.  Finally, I scrapped off some of the layers and rubbed in some color, and called it good.  The next day I was looking out the window on the woods floor, now clearly visible,  and what I saw is what I painted on the far left panel. The end of fall just gets strained of most of its color,  and in my Vivaldi world that color it is a deep ugly.

For now that work on this artwork will have to wait. I have moved this Vivaldi off of the main easels to make room for the start of this years Christmas painting, which will be You Raise Me Up sung my Josh Groban.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H Vivaldi’s Autumn allegro 3rd mvt. image1

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

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This is the first image of Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons,  Autumn Allegro third movement. This artwork consists of nine canvases for a total length of twelve feet ten inches. Since this is the last movement of Autumn, which is the season I am living in at this moment, I will be using a lot of the late  fall colors I see all around me. Today while out walking I picked up a number of leaves that I will keep for color references. What you are going to see in this background is a lot of earthy colors, faded greens, dirty yellows, and darker shades of red. The bright colors are for the music. I suppose it would be fine if I kept my entire pallet for this artwork like you see in the above images, but that would not be my current style. Generally, every color in the rainbow tries to find a spot in my works. Take a look at Keep on Loving you, and you will see what I mean.

I think this background will be fine for now.  Next up I will be applying a lot of stripping to give each canvas their own look. In their own strange way my strips relate to the lines of a staff in music notation, but the resemblance ends at that point.  I am not drawing the music I am depicting the flow only, but I do enjoy the comparison. The difference is my lines mean nothing, beyond adding interest to the artwork, unlike those five lines in a musical staff which represent a blank sheet of western musical notation.

The big think here is that I need to move a lot quicker with this work. Taking over two months to complete this one artwork, was not my original timing for this work. Stopping to do the Christmas canvas will slow this works progress, and because I am also working on a small work, all that is making me re-think a new Vivaldi in eight weeks. I could be destined to complete the first concerto of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, by the end of January.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Summer Allegro Final image

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

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This 15 foot 4 inch monster that began on July 3rd is now finished.   I am glad to move on. That only leaves four more Vivaldi’s to do and the set of thirteen is complete.   A good guess, for the finish of this project,  would be something in June of 2014, or probably July of 2014,  just in time for a needed vacation.

I do not have many thoughts lift about this work, because I have worked on this one work almost three months.  Here is what I can say:  it is big, it is diverse looking, and it represents the best effort  of this artist.  That is so far.  You could remove the bolts from this work,  separate them, and it would look like each canvas belongs to another artwork.  That I find fascinating and a direction I plan to keep developing to see how far it goes. Because as you know the real quest of this artist is to find out how it will all end.  Although the canvases are each unique you cannot but see that when they are all put together, it works.  I am sure those of appreciate this music will wonder why I pick the phrase that I did from this music considering how powerful most of the music is, and this is not.  This phrase of music, about 10 seconds,  is the sound of a little finch chirping.  I use it because this part of the movement is unique in the concerto.  There that is it, which you will be able to see, and hear,  when I post the walk through tomorrow evening.

Next up is the last of the Autumn  movements completing the first of the four concertos.  It is also called Autumn Allegro.  So the fall concerto starts with Allegro and ends with Allegro.  Maybe I will have to call it Autumn Allegro last movement.