Tag: Whitney Houston

S_V_H I Will Always Love you Final Image

Published on by Scott Von Holzen
Two canvases with aluminum and wood features. 47.75 in Length by about 18.75 in height

I Will always Love you is finally finished. Although I did not have to, I picked an interesting, and challenging part of the music to paint. The problem is that it took so long to complete that I developed a new idea I would like to try.  This painting, I Will Always…., shares the same basic style of connecting  two canvases together with aluminum strips that I started in April with When Doves Cry.  Since than it has worked well with the music, but I don’t want my artwork to be too repetitive, so I am taking a little style break.

For this painting I was never crazy about combing the colors of turquoise and brown. That was the request of the owner of this artwork.  If I had to do it all over again I would have went with even smaller canvas to diminish the turquoise.  To compensate for the larger canvas I did try to cover up, or break up,  as much of the turquoise as I could with different shades of brown. I do like that I used different shades of the turquoise. I have been using a lot of solid colors for backgrounds lately, which is less interesting. For the future I think I will go with different shades of a single color, but keep the shading a lot closer together. I think in that way I can have the clean look of a solid, without being boring.

I used the Rainbow Flag colors to give this painting its own special look, and by only using the one word, love, I  covered the meaning of this music to the owners.

There you go. Another painting, that lucky for me is not headed to storage, but to Missouri.

Next up, I plan on doing something different.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H I Will Always Love You image 4

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

This is the fourth image of this artwork showing the entire flow of the music. Next up is the non musical add-on wood items to  give this artwork  interest, and personality. 

Scott Von Holzen

 

S_V_H I Will Always Love You image3

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

This is the third image of the music I will Always Love You. I think I have now found a shade of brown that visually works with the turquoise, for this commissioned work.  Because of the number of music pieces needed I also had to cut their size to keep this artwork under the planned 48 inches or less. I used eight inch canvases for this artwork, which resulted in the background being a little too large in comparison to the music. Saying that  I probably should have used six-inch canvas. Wow, that surprises me.

Only a couple of years ago did I lose the idealism of my youth that painting bigger artworks would have a larger impact, and would fit nicely along with the other big works in a contemporary gallery at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  I think the finishing of the Vivaldi Four Seasons paintings, in early 2015 drained my want to paint big.  Also, there was the dramatically increase in shipping costs,  the difficulty in storing large artworks in a limited storage space, and the realization that my patron class had small walls for artworks and even smaller wallets.  My smartest move became to paint small. To become one of the greatest artists the world has ever seen, you first have to be seen, and not just stored.

Here is a nice tribute video of Jennifer Hudson singing I Will Always Love You: