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S_V_H With a little help from my friends image5

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

helpFromMyFriends_5With this fifth image of With a little help from me friends you are seeing two new major features added to this artwork. I have applied little sails to a half-dozen of the items in this musical flow. And I have also did the drafting of the words that I choose for this music.

The interesting part of this image, for me, is those little sails, and yes they do look like the sails you see on sailboats.  They first showed up as a powerful image in the Four Seasons work, The Four Seasons, Winter Largo, a favorite.  After finishing the Vivaldi series I drifted away from that style in Fine and mellow, Ghost of Tom Joad, and Losing my edge, my  2015 Birthday painting.  I returned to the sails with my B.B King painting Sweet little angel, and to my surprised I thought they worked well with that work.

Since starting this musical art in 2006, I have struggle to find some way to represent what an eighth note would look like in this art.  The sail idea makes sense to use for it make the music seem to move across the canvases, greatly improving the flow of the painting.

I am not sure that the sails style will work with every canvas.  For sure I thought it work well with Classical Music. It was not until I tried it with the Blues work that I saw it could also work on more contemporary music. I will probably tweak my notes with sails in this artwork to add interest, pull things together, and maybe to give them a more sixties look, whatever that means.

This work is nearing completion.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H With a little help from my friends image4

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

helpFromMyFriends_4Image four of a little help from my friend, shows the basic structure of the flow of this music.  Stylistically  nothing too different with the exception that I did try a new technique on the beam on right blue panel (that long slopping rectangle at the top). I edge it out with multiple layers of tape so that when removed I had an object with some added depth to it.  Even though the height of the beam turned out to be small it was enough to stand out from the canvas. This is especially noticeable when you compare it with all the vertical rectangles that are my staffs that follow along with the music.

Of interest is my color choices for the vertical  rectangles.  I searched out psychedelic colors, a sixties thing,  and found such a range and variety that I figured as long as I went with bright, and contrasting colors, all would be fine.  As for the large beam, I wanted a connection to be made between it and the music so I used the same color for each, Cobalt Blue.  I also swirled the wet color mix, in a small way, to represent musical sound waves

I am doing this artwork for a specific reason that I cannot talk about at this time.  That means that not only do I want to create something unique, I also want an artwork that appeals. Those desires are similar to my basic goals for every painting, but more meaningful for this small  artwork with a destiny.

 

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H With a little help from my friends image 3

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

helpFromMyFriends_3This third image displays the music flow for With a little help from my friends. By portraying a dimensional flow of the music this now adds even greater depth to these artworks.  This move advances this art forms multiply layered trend which started when combining canvases to form different depths. What you have in this artwork is a painting that by combining different parts, to form multiple layers, helps to move this art form closer to the structure of a music.  A  musical performance occurs inside a structure with a stage in front of the audience, the musicians behind their instruments, people sitting around tables and moving about the room.  Live music performance exists in different depths and layers except for the sound that is everywhere, and though harmony,  focuses the interaction to and the connecting of strangers. This artworks  canvases  can also be a structure for the music and the viewer.  Even though this artwork lacks sound it can still present the music, as a multiple dimensional snapshot of the flow of the harmony.   This art then can offer another method for people to connect to  music. If that explains this art or not, that is okay, for even I am winging it most of the time.

Scott Von Holzen