DRAWING AND PAINT

Like the rest of us, you enjoy music and you’ve often thought of owning a piece of music art, to meld the two passions of your life.  It can be done.  Music art consists of depictions of musicians and music itself. That last one sound impossible?  Very well, let us begin with the first, a portrayal of musicians.  Perhaps you love the symphony and even have season tickets.  Every performance, matinee or evening, you come away with a glow of pure happiness.  Why not commission a painting of your favorite orchestra, playing their hearts out to glorious music.  If you have a favorite member, say First Seat Violin, your artist may spend a little extra time on her, even making her features stand out from the rest of the orchestra as she is portrayed in the dress that you like her most in.  It will be a challenge that a professional artist will gladly take up.

If your taste extends to jazz, a fewer number of people will be the subject, but then the artist has room to make them idiosyncratic in form, just as they are in real life.  Look at that lead trombonist.  Doesn’t he have a very particular way of arching back as he uses the slide to coax out those brassy notes?  Tell your artist about that favorite pose, and you will wind up with a highly distinctive piece of music art.

Opera music is your special love, you say?  Then the emphasis will be placed on an individual artist, unless you desire a set piece from a favorite opera such as the sextet from ‘Lucia di Lammermoor.’  Most likely, a diva has captured your heart and you would truly enjoy seeing her portrait on your wall.  She may be in full Viking regalia as she triumphantly sings the Ride of the Valkyries from Wagner, or perhaps trills the delicate aria from the tragic end of ‘Madame Butterfly.’  A piece of music art depicting some of the fantastic costumes from opera would be a delight any artist as he gets down on canvas just the perfect sheen of satin and ruffle of delicate lace from around the throat of a famous singer.  All in all, if you desire a piece of music art, you cannot go wrong with opera.

Should pop music be your forte, then most likely your color palette will be bright and loud, bringing a lot of energy into the painting.  You could ask for an abstract rendering from Michael Jackson’s video Thriller, for instance, which joins the film world with the music world with the dancing world.  That’s a lot of artistic appeal in one painting!  Whatever you decide upon commissioning, when you get the piece home and hang it upon your wall, you will have a sensory experience to be proud of and which to share happily.

As to depicting music itself, many think of music in the form of colors, in a way that transcends the musical scale or even writing down music in note form itself.  This rarefied technique must be discussed in detail with your favorite artist, as the colors in your mind that translate into music will naturally be extremely subjective.  For example, if you think of a chord as the yellow-orange part of the color wheel, then you will need to describe that to your artist and allow him to work that into his painting; perhaps, to him, the same chord says, ‘blue-green’!  Communication is the way to go to receive the desired end of the project, one that will satisfy client and artist both.