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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 Up On the Roof image4

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

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Up On The Roof is a Classic Pop song written by Carole Kin, and first recorded by the Drifters in 1963. Years later it made it back to the charts with a recording by James Taylor in 1979.  I picked this song to paint, for some reason, somewhere, at some time,  I had good feelings towards this music. That feelings is constituent even today, every time I hear it.  I am not sure whose version I first heard, and fell for,  or when it made such a lasting impression on me.  Maybe, It is the lyrics or the way the words connect,  that puts it in my iTunes three stars plus list,  that now numbers 291 songs out of 20,000.

“When I come home feelin’ tired and beat
I go up where the air is fresh and sweet
Up on the roof
I get away from the hustling crowd
And all that rat race noise down in the street
Up on the roof”

For this artwork it was the next lines of this music that are the inspiration:

“On the roof, the only place I know
Where you just have to wish to make it so
Let’s go up on the roof
Up on the roof”

Of course this  music may have stuck in my head, because it is a rare pop song that has nothing to do with wanting, having, losing, or not getting it on with someone.  It is only about finding peace and maybe sharing it with another.

“And if this world starts getting you down
There’s room enough for two, up on the roof
Up on the roof”

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H UP On the Roof image2 & 3

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

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Up on The Roof Image 2

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UP on the Roof Image 3

Up on the Roof is a Classic pop song from the sixties and on. There has been a major change that you may find hard to see in the full images.  In the first image  the first two canvases butt together.  In image two, and now three, what you are now seeing is that I have separated the first two canvases using  canvas two as a first step up.  Canvas three and four then are each another step up. This is my first artwork with four different levels.  The obvious reason that I am stepping these canvases is to follow the flow of the music. This artwork is going to look interesting, on a wall. Right now, it is hard to hold the work safely on the easels, without adding an arm to let the artwork move out from the support.

Next up is to put in the musical flow.

You can buy a finish print of this artwork at a discounted price at my Etsy site for $30.

Scott Von Holzen