Tag: Music

S_V_H Everyglow image1

Published on by Scott Von Holzen
This first image shows where I am laying out to music to see if most of it will fit on these size canvases.

I am planning to incorporate two framed 12 x 16 Vincent Van Gogh wall prints into the artwork. I will build my speaker boxes around them. Here are the links to information about the original artworks.

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0144V1962

https://www.wikiart.org/en/vincent-van-gogh/vase-with-lilacs-daisies-and-anemones-1887

Updated image of the artwork with notes and two Amazon framed Vincent Van Gogh prints.

The reason I am using two wall prints in this artwork, is to raise their status from cheap household wall art to art. It is the surprising quality of cheap wall art that I can see where your average kitchen table artist will eventually find it impossible to compete with. Even without Van Gogh’s raised textures these inexpensive Amazon wall art pieces would look decent or even nice in your average living room. If they were framed, they would certainly gain increased prestige. Even on the internet site Etsy, where flower prints are handmade, these two $14 framed prints hold their own in look and price.

Here is the final draft of Everglow’s artwork’s cover music before moving it into my finishing software StudioOne. I have edited my cover down to 30 seconds in length because of copyright restrictions, that I actually put on myself. Really, who in the music industry actually follows me, or actually reads these blog posts? I do this because it is the right thing to do.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H Wildfire final image

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

Photo 1: Wildfire final image on the easels. This artwork does not photograph well against the light background and the cloudy North light. ≈ L70.25xH37xD7.5

This is my final thoughts on the Wildfire video I uploaded to my YouTube. I have this account, to document through the years the progress of turning sheet music into art.

30 second preview of the music box cover music Wildfire

Going Deeper:

I did this video on January 6th thinking this artwork music box was done. It was not. Later in the day, I went about my studio, setting the goal of putting 100 items back in their proper space, before starting a new project. That was when I discovered I had forgotten to attach and make a number of other small musical items needed to complete the artwork. Sheet music designates, for example, some of them as a tie or a slur, or accidentals. I call all my additions to the artwork that are not notes incidentals. They now appear in the updated photo.

I am really impressed by the sound of this music. I built my music using a Bose system on my Windows 10 PC, and for the first time the sound difference between my Bose and my music box system is close to each other. In comparison the music box sound is lacking a small amount of bass, clarity, and depth of the sound. More effort on the music would bring the differences closer, but I need to move on.

For my next project I am already building the cover music for the 2016 music artwork, Under Pressure upgrade to a music box.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H Wildfire image 2

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

Here is the music box Wildfire, with all of its canvases attached. This artwork has a length of a respectable (my size standard) seventy inches by Thirty-three and a quarter. Next up I will build and attached the stereo system and after a little more finishing work, this project will be completed next week.

Here is where I piled the music. I needed my large tables to put the artwork’s canvases together.

Going Deeper:

This is the first time where I am used tape to remove the top layer of paint to reveal my graffiti lyrics from the music. Previously, I have always drawn words on the top layer of paint and then scratch them away with a pallet knife to obscure them while revealing the base paint.

My original scratch off technique used a small pallet knife with a rounded edge. This type of tool gave me to the control to create a lot of variety in the pattern and the direction when scratching off the top layer of paint. But because each project is unique in materials and paint choices, the quality of the results varied a lot over the years. I attempted several changes that did not solve this consistency issue. Then I stumbled on a partial solution. By accident I placed a piece of tape on a fresh top layer of paint on the artwork Flight from the City. I went from dread to wow when I saw the look and the pleasant effects the tape had made when removed. Depending how it was stuck on to the paint, the results varied nicely. The removing of the top layer of paint with tape also resulted in cleaner edges, no lifting of the paint, and no bottom layer damage that the metal edge of the pallet knife often did. The tape also allowed me to create straighter lines, which could appear to be representing the staff lines in sheet music. Of course they are not, but the straight lines look works with my musical notes.

Up next the finished artwork Wildfire with what I consider to be surprisingly good cover music.

Scott Von Holzen