This week’s post is late as I was on vacation, and it’s a bit of an experiment. I love painting what I feel or see when I listen to music, but usually I create a theme, I have a specific scene in mind or any sort of concept. But this week, after not listening to it for a while, I played the album Leisure Seizure by Tom Vek, opened a new canvas, and started painting.
What I’ve done in the past when painting while listening to music was very different from this. I didn’t doodle and stick to that image, I didn’t start a new section for each song. I painted over what I’d done before, painted over parts I didn’t like, parts that didn’t fit anymore. You can still make out most of the parts, but if I were to listen to the album from finish to start and paint that, the result would probably look quite different.
I didn’t really have expectations for the final piece, and I think it could be cleaner. It’s very messy and vibrant, but I do like it. Painting it was very relaxing, I was very focused on the music and painting. I put dots down, curves, lines, matching the rythms that I heard, used the colours that I felt matched the music.
It’s a mess, but it’s my mess. It’s a fair representation of how I experience this, in a way, messy and vibrant album. I can see the connection. I’m just never sure if it translates to how others experience music.
Since the end result is so messy I’m adding two progress videos that show a bit more of what’s happened during the process.
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