Tag: Music theme

This is a close up of the first section of this canvas. Let’s get creative, and let the colors fly. That is what was stuck with this work until it just made its feeling known. So here we go. Its is difficult to articulate how creative decisions are made, it happens when the wall is up, and there is only one solution and that is to go through it. Every time, go through it, with every work, through every frustration, for the alternative is not going to happen. Not this time.

Next post will be Sunday Night.

Scott Von Holzen

This is a sectional close up.  The background is proving to be difficult to work with for it is such a mix of colors.  the choice of a single color range for the treble clef and the bass clef may not be the best answer.  The issue now, as in past works, is finding colors for the notes that let them stand out. Maybe, that will not work here, where there is a background that may appear to be out-of-control.  So, lets let the paint fly and see what sticks.

Scott Von Holzen

This is a small section of this work showing some progress and some frustration in the direction. The notes are critical to the flow of the music like stepping stones that guide a viewer from left to right across 12 feet. Over five years they have involved from “watermelon seeds” (a passing comment) to little abstract paintings all to themselves.  The concern is that they maybe are becoming boring after so many canvases.

To keep them fresh and to appear more aggressive their angle has been elevated to levels no sheet music would ever use.  Also, different brush stoke techniques and color combos have been used, especially lately, to add  life.   Yet, there is concern and questioning about even going further and abstracting them.  Really it is irrelevant that the notes actually look like musical notes, who cares.  What is important is to put down on the canvas  objects to represent the music and the flow.  That is it, and that solution is what has been anxiously fleeting.

Scott Von Holzen