Visual Music

Music moves me. It moves everyone. It drives emotion in a movie, creates and then anchors memories, changes moods, invigorates a workout, soothes a bedtime, moves a body and a heart. Music also makes me think, if the lyrics speak to me, and that's what my next series is based on.

I am going to illustrate music. A painting could be depict a whole song, or simply one line. I am starting with "The Tear," which comes from Jeff Buckley's song, Lover, You Should Have Come Over. Specifically, this line: "She's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever." I may do several lines from this song.

Another planned painting is of the song, The Beauty of Gray, by Live. In this song he sings, "This is not a black and white world. To be alive the colors must be swirled. And I believe that maybe some day we all learn to appreciate the beauty of gray." For this piece the subject will be in shades of gray, but I will not use any black or white paint. The background will be the colors that make up the grays.

I am looking forward to finding songs and lines from songs that move me enough to paint them!