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S_V_H Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons – Summer-adagio” image3

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Vivaldi twelve feet in length.  The first photo taken with two White Lighting flashes, using white shoot through umbrellas bounced off the studio ceiling. No matter how I worked the image in Photoshop the orange, used in the above upper images, appears red in color.  It is difficult to duplicate the shades of acrylic paint, and  frustrating  with the amount of time lost, trying to fix the image.  A good likeness for the Cloud that compares well with the artwork will always be a challenge.

The next move was to take the painting outside, and place it in the shade. Looking at this second image there is a difference: the orange is actually orange.  Although both of these images where shot RAW and adjusted, there is something about that huge natural light source that has its advantages.

This video certainly is interesting, in its imperfections, and spontaneity.  The canon 7D  made this video in one take.  Can you tell.  There is only one way to go from here and I really do hope you check back whether you “appreciate” the effort or not.

Listening to Smokin’ Joe Kubek – I Saw It Coming

This is certainly an odd-shaped painting.  Notice that little 4 by 4inch canvas on the left top that depicts that one high note.  Here is another video for this music. The painting comes into play at about 1:25 seconds into the music, and is the third rumble.

The Birthday painting on this last Tuesday, and the continuing business at work, did drained me throughout the rest of the week.  I will get back on track slowly on Monday, and gain momentum on this fourth in a series of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons,  as the week progresses.  That is usually how it works.

Some Final Thoughts on the Birthday painting:
The painting will be strung and taken to work for display.  Not much will come of that, but at less an artwork moves out the door. I do not see the Birthday painting as that creative of a piece. The thought was that since everything goes so much faster, on that one day,  that the opportunity to get crazy with new ideas, would just happen.  It did not happen.  Instead this years Birthday painting turned out as a continuation of last years Van Gogh Birthday painting. It is what it is.

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Listening to Delbert McClinton – I’ve Got Dreams To Remember

Watt Ever – Phil Keaggy

Chic – Le Freak

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S_V_H Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons – Summer-adagio” image2

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Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons – Summer adagio. This artwork is 12 feet(3.66m) in length by 36 inches(.91m) in height.  It is awkward to handle which I learned when I tried to remove this artwork from the easels and it swung up and hit the ceiling. The work consists of four canvases, so far, with the largest being  three by 5 feet. The words chosen come from the Vivaldi sonnets of which this is one translation from Wikisource:

” The fear of lightning and fierce thunder
Robs his tired limbs of rest
As gnats and flies buzz furiously around.”

Of course, this artwork is going to concentrate on the “lighting” and “thunder” parts of this poem. There might be a splash of “gnats” here and there, but that part of the sonnet does not inspire me.

Listening to:
Just in Time – Sonny Rollins
For You Blue – The Beatles
South City Midnight Lady – The Doobie Brothers

Here is the  link to the music, from an earlier blog entry.  On the left side of the full image you see and can feel the soft, reflective, sad, soothing  music. Then as the canvas expands, to the right, the thunder makes its appearance.  The artwork , starts just before the third rumble. Those light blue horizontal lines represent lighting. This is not a complicated piece of music and that may well be reflected in the end appearance and the shorten time needed to complete this artwork. Ahead there will be some interesting work done with the thunder and the overhead beams that are only now a drawing.  Already,  updates have added depth and an interest to those soft green circle notes.

THE  2012 BIRTHDAY PAINTING TO BE COMPLETED, ALL IN ONE DAY, ON JULY 31ST THIS COMING TUESDAY: This  Blog Link details how you can name a piece of music that you would like to see painted on that day.  If your choice wins, you then will received a signed, large-scale photograph, as a thank you.  I need more musical choices to choose from, get involved.

Here are the latest suggestions, with comments:

Simon and Garfunkel – I am a rock OR The Boxer
Beatles – let it be
Rod Stewart – Forever young
The White Stripes – Jolene (Dolly’s rendition was familiar to me growing up; but I like the edge in the White Stripes version

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S_V_H Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons – Summer-adagio” image1

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Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons four Canvas, 12 feet(3.66m)in length by 36 inches(.91m).  This is a snap shot, of the early background.  Next up will be to draw in the music to see how it lays across the canvas. Once the draft of the music is laid out then it will be back to the background.

The grey colored area, on the left side of this image, is not canvas. What you are looking at is the first odd shape work, that  could be called a combine.  To explain how this art got to this point you have to look back to 2005.  From one canvas to another,  it was felt back then, that it was necessary that the musical phrase  fit the selected canvas support.  Of course that was restrictive, which eventually lead from works that were on a two foot by four canvases to larger signal sizes and then to works on two same size canvases bolted together in 2009.

It was in earlier 2012, with the Mozart work Serenade No.13, that this artist realized that this thinking was backwards: the art needed  to accommodate the music.  That is why you see, in the image above, that extra 12-inch panel on the far left, and the 12-inch panel in the lower middle.  Those two small pieces will allowed  the bass sound a stronger visual on the right side. There are style changes in the sharpening of the effort to  not  blend the canvas parts together, and with the use of two different size canvases, that are awkward to handle, that compose the background.

One thing that has matured with this art, over the years, is the approach to depicting music. If you look at general sheet music, it is rigid in structured and this set the standard for much of my earlier works.  But that got boring, and once the technical confidence grew, so did the ideas to better paint the flow of music without turning it into a typical wall hanging.  This art is not your generic abstract  music painting, splashed in complementary colors, you see everywhere. This art has grown and so have I while staying true to the idea that started it all.

Listening to:   The Thrill is Gone – B.B King,  Hallelujah – K.D Lang,   The Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive,  She Talks to Angels – The Black Crowes, Peal Jam – Come Back.  George Carlin – Capital Punishment

The following is a video of this music:

UPDATE on the Birthday Painting Suggestions that have come in.  Here is the list so far:

Unchained Melody – The Righteous Brothers.

Your Are so Beautiful – Joe Cocker

Roses are Red  –  Bobby Vinton

I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston

House of the Rising Sun – The Animals

Blame it on the Rain –  Milli Vanilli

Vincent – Don McLean

What’s Going on – Marvin Gaye

Changes – Tupac  Shakur

The Sky is Crying – Stevie Ray Vaughan

 It is your turn  to add to this list. Here is the link for the details, detailing the Birthday music painting.  On my Birthday, July 31st I will start,  and complete this work.

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