final project- process pics, ... my color composition 3

**I eventually decided to forgo the whole drawing with markers idea and went back to paints. I tried to keep the colors for each instrument basically the same with the paints as with the markers. This is my paint palet; I used both acrylics and water-based matalic paints, which worked fine together. Here we have red for drums, blue for trombone, yellow for trumpet, green for high saxophone, amber orange for low saxophone and gold for piano. I decided to just "dance on the page with my fingers." :)

Here's my set-up:

I agree with Monica that a kitty is an important part of any art project. -hehe  My cat "Coats" trying to help, but mostly getting in the way. :)

**Here is the final copies of my color composition:

-1st section of the song

-2nd section of the song (1st high saxophone feature with piano and drums)

-3rd section of the song (trumpet feature with piano and drums)

-4th section of the song (2nd high saxophone feature with piano and drums)

-5th section of the song (low saxophone feature with piano and drums)

-6th section/finally of the song

final project- process pics, ... my color composition 2

Here's the 1st section of the song in marker colors. I was holding several long markers when I did this, and had trouble cordinating and being flexable enough to it- in beat with the music. I generally like it, but I just didn't feel satisfied with it in the end.
*note- I also wanted to see if I liked the results better if I did it with my eyes opened or with my eyes closed, so I experiemented with that too. This one was with my eyes closed.

-2nd section of the song, and I believe this was with my eyes opened. Still not too happy with the results.

So then I thought of doing just one color, marker at a time, and I would used the one that is most emphasixed in that particular section of the song, for example, this is the 2nd section of the song- the first high saxophone feature, so I used just my one marker color that represented that one instrument, (even though in the song there is actually drums and piano with it). Nice!, much less to handle- could flow more easily in strokes and I could move faster and be caught up with the beat of the music. I was still wondering about the eyes opened or eyes closed thing, so I experimented with that again here.

*This one was done with my eyes closed.

This is also the 2nd section of the song, the first high saxophone feature- done that same way the one above was done, but with my eyes opened. *See the difference? I felt, after these experiments, that I wanted to keep my eyes closed, I seemed to have more creative freedom and to make more interesting designs if I wasn't aware of my markings. I decided I didn't like this just one color thing either; it's just not as interesting and it defeats my goal of wanting to show the layers of the instruments/music.

final project- process pics, ... my color composition 1

*For my color composition I really wanted to just play the music and "dance it out". Here's an experiment of that. I actually like the result I got, I think it's pretty, but the paints were so sticky on my feet that it restricted my speed of movement and my feet would stick to the paper and it would tare. So, sadly, I had to put that idea out. This is the 1st section of the song.

-2nd section of the song

So next I tried the same basic idea with markers in my hands:
First, I tried out different marker colors:

I picked: real red for drums, tempting turquoise for trombone, yoyo yellow for trumpet, glorious green for high saxophone, really rust for low saxophone, and creamy caramel for piano. Those ones seemed to best match the paints I had picked out.

final project- process pics, ... my black and white composition 3

Here are all the symbols ideas I had. For symbols to represent the actual instrumentation, I chose: #3 for drums, #3 for trombone, #3 for trumpet, #2 for high saxaphone, #2 for low saxaphone, and #4 for piano.

*But I kept my border idea (for the top and bottom of the page). I made the border by arranging all of my symbol(s) ideas on photoshop. See:

*I did think about making the border go all the way around, but I had trouble figuring out the spaces, and come to find out I wouldn't have had room to do that anyway.

**Here are the final copies of my black and white compositions, (they all fit together to make one "black and white version of the song" ) :

-1st section of the song

-2nd section of the song (1st high saxaphone feature with piano and drums)

-3rd section of the song (trumpet feature with piano and drums)

-4th section of the song (2nd high saxaphone feature with piano and drums)

-5th section of the song (low saxaphone feature with piano and drums)

-6th section/finally of the song

final project- process pics, ... my black and white composition 2

-5th section of the song

6th section, or the finally of the song

Then, I tried to count out the symbols I'd made in each section, as is demonstrated here, but it was hard to figure out how to scale down the final copy I was going to do, because the simplified symbols I used above, were smaller than the cut-out ones I'd be using on the final copy, and I could fit more of them in a smaller space, or one line, than I know I'd be able to with the cut-out symbols. I think I did pretty well with the grouping and scaling down; I also just focused more on the where in the song a certain instrument was emphasized, and/or where it came in and joined the other instruments.

*I also considered just getting rid of the whole symbols idea with my black and white composition and just doing it by hand with markers, just closing my eyes and marking however I felt as I was listening to the song. This is my experiment with that ideas. This is the 1st section of the song.

-2nd section of the song

*But I decided to stick with my using symbols idea.*

final project- process pics, ... my black and white composition 1

experiment with the border idea:

I listened to the song and made markings based on the placement of the instrumentation and/or emphasis of it. I had to simplify my symbols, so that I could make them more quickly. My song, "Big Noise From Winnetka (a Jazz song), was really fast. -Here's the one for the first section of the song. I noted the time duration of each section of the song in the lower right corner.

-2nd section of the song

-3rd section of the song

-4th section of the song

Hi! and note:

Hi all,
Nice last class today, huh?!  I enjoyed the class and being in it with all of you! :)

Just wanted to let you know I will be posting my preliminary scetches, etc. for my final project here shortly.

*I think I'll keep this blog going for my personal use.  Maybe I can figure out how to post my photography, finally. -haha

Thanks, -Lisa