Tag: Music

S_V_H I Call Your Name image2

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

I call your Name two feet by 6 feet canvas.   Since there are no current orders this song was chosen: it brings back memories, especially the Mamas & Pappas version.  Actually, I saw her standing there, was first chosen.  This Beatles Rock & Roll classic, has forever been a favorite, and it was the cruising through all the Beatles music in the search for Standing that Call was re-discovered as a piece of music written by John and Paul.  This then lead to another classic ballad, Stand by Me the Ben E. King music, that John Lennon covered.

Finding all this music to paint is an exception. There is the intention to put together the music and canvas for the next work, but that never seems to work.  It is hard to change the thought focus.
What happens  then, is hours, and sometimes days of frustration and anger over wasted time, before just the right music is found. The process then begins for a new canvas: are there interesting notes, will they fit on the chosen canvas, how good are the words to work with?

So, for once, we have months of work ahead with I Call your Name, I saw her Standing there, and Stand by me, all with a Beatles twist.  Strange, listening to the Beatles music up pops the desire to listen to a lot of Bruce Springsteen.  Somehow they relate, and from it all may come Thunder road.

We shall see.

Scott Von Holzen

Chopin Valse Op.64, No.2 image8

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

A Chopin Waltz.  This three foot by eight foot canvas is finished.  There was drifting at the end.  Usually there is a battle between the art and the artist but this time the art just let go, and the artist walked away.  A final  image with greater detail will be posted to scottvonholzen.com in the next few weeks.

The artist the web master and marketing person is just behind.  The painting comes first, and the blogging is put up to keep the documentation going,  and just maybe it is to let whomever out there know that the quest, the journey, the path forward, the dream, the habit, the fear, still lives on.

Not sure but this should be the end of the oval note: not enough action, enough movement, enough character, enough interest to keep on using them.  The pink tie is much loved and the use of color bands that work with the music are the best of this work.  Those two features move the art forward.   Luckily, this is still happening. Someday it will all be a big repeat, but for now there is more to come.   Even a marginally successful painting like this, at this stage in the art, can have an influence which will show on the next work.  So starts a favorite of the artist, they all are, I call your Name.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H Chopin Waltz Op.64,No.2 image7

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

This Chopin’s Valse in C sharp minor is starting to move forward.  This painting represents the five measures just before the  theme Piùl ento,  which means slower. Which means that the music slows quickly to that very high C.

It has been a struggle to get to this simple point in this work.  Hours are spent and hours are lost, and progress is made, and progress is forgotten in the damp rag that is used to wipe away hours of effort, hours of thought, and hours of confidence. This is what art is: never ever completely confident that what is being done is just that, art.   And…. still…it is all worth it, the lost contacts with friends and family, the time away mentally from everything else, and…the forever regrets for the selfish use of free time not spent with those you care most about.  The selfishness… the forever regrets, the constant fear that there is nothing more.  The quest for the art makes it worth it.  To be a good friend and not a best friend because the art got in the way is a worthy trade.  In the end it is always about the art,  and that life’s hours are a worthy sacrifice.  In time there will be moments to celebrate……those  short moments will make it all worth it.  Life is full of short pauses and quick catches, and slippery grasps…..they are all to be enjoyed.

Scott Von Holzen

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