Current Work

Music and painting have always been two very important things to me. In my late 20’s and into my 30’s I spent no small amount of time going to shows seeing my favorite bands. It’s one of my favorite times of my life and I still enjoy going to see good music. The lights, the thudding of the bass and drums…ahhh, I loved it. I don’t know why I never thought to bring this experience of mine into my painting.

That is until I was going through some photos I took years ago. I was fascinated with the colors of the lights and how they changed the actual colors of the musician’s clothing, skin, etc. My first painting was the close up of the man singing and playing guitar, followed by the orange lead singer. Last was the purple duo.

These are not supposed to be any one particular person. Instead I like to think of them as everyone and no one. I was more after the feeling of a show, rather than someone specific. In fact I borrowed parts from different images to create each painting.

While I am proud of each of these paintings for different reasons, I think my personal favorite would be the orange one. It by far was the most difficult one to achieve of the three simply because orange does not play well with other colors. I feel like I was very successful with the bright white light behind the hand holding the mic stand. With this painting I actually feel the urge to jump up and down and yell as if I was at a concert.

I aim to continue working on this series for awhile. I have several ideas in the back of my head, but I think I’m going to be a bit more leisurely about it. All of these paintings were done within a months time. I finished the first blue painting right before my Dad’s death and the other two were part of a challenge I was participating in. Acrylic April or Artsy April is where you do something creative and post it on social media once a day for an entire month. I finished the purple painting last week. While I have another painting planned I cannot finish it within this month so I’ll take my time and post it when it is complete.