Sunday, 8 March 2015

Exercise Working with music

Music inspired watercolours, abstract doodles rather than anything more ambitious, I like what I am listening to but don't feel any strong emotion or different emotion based on what I listened to for this exercise. I tried to avoid painting pictures of the instruments I could hear or moving my paint brush across the paper like I am conducting but in some cases couldn't help but be influenced by the song title.

Caribou, Sun




Daft Punk, Verdis Quo




Jon Hopkins, Lost in Thought




Miles Davis, All blue



My daughter who gave me a list of music, after painting the pictures tried to guess which painting went with which song... All blue was the the on she got followed by Sun once she could see that the the tiles had played a part in what I had painted.

Lost in Thought, I feel, is the most successful if its possible, to measure the outcome... marks in this painting more than the others influenced by the music rather than producing something that I am trying to make work as a picture.

My daughter, unlike me, can play several instruments and has a much deeper appreciation of music (beyond my "oh, this is a nice tune") ... It would to be good to try and paint here interpretation of the songs... she could write down how she feels and I could try and paint a response... 


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