Tag: modern art

S_V_H Bach BWW 1014, Adagio Final image

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

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Bach Sonata 1014. With image 8 you are seeing the Ties in all the color glory.  I save the Greens for them. There are twenty of them. What you are seeing is an entire artwork which does not just focus on the music flow that you see.  I see importance in every aspect of the music, and use color and shape to create dramatic, or contrasting images, that create interest which is my main goal of every work I do.  Great music with out an interesting flow, is boring.  My job is to find those great phrases in the music that not only define the music but make it fun to paint.

Next up are to add the sharps and fix a couple of the stems, that I can make longer, followed by cleaning up the edges..

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

S_V_H Vivaldi’s Autumn allegro 3rd mvt. image1

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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