Tag: Music

Eine Kleinie Nachtmusik in English is, of course, A Little Night Music. This artwork has been worked on, and painted on, for the most part in the night time, fitting its title. If this image looks somewhat  scruffy it is mostly do the the drawing in of all the slurs that this artwork is representing in its own interesting way.  In the real world of music slurs or just OK to look at,  but they are too boring for this artist to leave alone.  These slurs look like fireworks bursting across the canvas in a left to right movements helping to push the music across the surface.  No idea of what will be their background color scheme.  That is left to the mind to sort through the options and let it be known tomorrow what ideas it has.  I do not always follow its suggestions but at less the preliminary work gets done.

The beams are not finished either, but they are looking strong and for now time is been given to them to see how they settle in with the rest of the artwork.  I see mostly fine tuning and maybe a splash of a bright color here and there to give them a little more of a beat.

Listening to Tori Amos – Way down  followed by Patty Griffin – Burgundy Shoes on Pandora.

In this studio there hangs the paintings: Imagine, Hallelujah, Thunder Road and the Vivaldi from this summer.  Scattered around the room for inspiration are the works, Baby Love, It’s A Man’s World, More Than you Know, I Call your Name, and the great Body and Soul.  At times the artworks, propped up here and there, are in the way, but I need them close.  It helps.  They are the reason to keep painting.

Finishing this blog with Van Morrison – Reminds Me Of You  followed by Johnny Hartman – Ain’t Misbehavin’

Scott Von Holzen

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Mozart Eine Kleinie Nachtmusik, K.525 Romanze Andante.   That is mouth full. Go here at YouTube to actually hear this music played by some very interesting and talented fellows. Again the images are somewhat brighter than reality.  The brightness is nice, but again a little too florescent.

Listening to Susan Tedeschi – Just Won’t Burn

There is a feeling that something is happening here with this artwork: that a very large door is opening up, and this artist is going to step through it. Before getting there this canvas has demonstrated that there is still this learning curve with the mixing of colors, to achieve the desired effects of depth and color.  More art classes would have surely help, but that time has past. For now on we will learn by doing, and doing again, and still, not satisfied, so doing it again, until it sinks in.  It is what it is. No one said this would be easy. I am sure even Mozart,  and Picasso had there moments when they had no clue what they were doing.

Listening to The Notorious MSG – Chinatown Hustler.

Still,  not happy with the two side brown areas, for they seem boring and lack interest.  The middle orange section has just been worked on to increase it’s intensity to try and match the photos, which seems like a strange idea. Later tonight work will begin on the beams and slurs where the fun will be.

Listening to Tony Bennett – The Way You Look Tonight.

Scott Von Holzen

Mozart ‘s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 Romanze Andate, 5 panels  33 inches by 123 inches. The Photoshop job to replace the background along the top and right edge could use some refining, but this does not lessen the value of the additional two small panels.

These panels accomplishes three things: they give the work a sculptured 3 dimensional look, that also gives the artist new ways to emphasize the diversity in the music. Thirdly, and maybe the best of all reasons for adding panels on top of panels, is that it frees this artist  completely from the restraints of limited canvases sizes. Now, instead of fitting the music to the available canvas, the canvases will be chosen to fit the needs of the music.

What you see above is the drawing in of the flow of this great Mozart piece. Next up is the choice of head and stem color and hopefully some other new techniques to make this the standard for 2012. I am feeling a lossening up of the technique and colors.  This may be because of the viewing of the works of Sean Scully,  and maybe it has to do a little with the curiosity of Basquiat. It is hard to tell, but this direction is a good feeling for this artist.  We shall see.

Scott Von Holzen