Showing posts with label illustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illustration. Show all posts

Thursday, May 29, 2008

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!