Thursday, September 29, 2011

Field Work.

So, here is the first piece of art to grace this new project blog. I was inspired to draw it after listening to Field Work about a million times. I suggest downloading Spotify to hear most of the songs I'll be making art for, but you can probably just look up each song on youtube if you're not one to download new programs.



Also, I have previously posted elsewhere a piece of art for the song Oceanea, if you're interested in that.


Now, if you'll allow me to get fangirly for a moment. If I had the chance to be at one of Thomas Dolby's concerts, I would want to give him one of the above pictures or at the very least have him autograph one.

I have a few photographs that should be coming your way shortly (within the next couple of days), so stay tuned for those.





Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Welcome to my new art project!

Hello everyone, and welcome to my new art blog.
I had an art blog where I was going to attempt to post a new piece of art every day for a year, but that fell through the cracks. Most of my really good art is too complex to churn out one piece a day, and my creativity refuses to perform on such a regular schedule. My creativity is like a moody teenager. When it wants to, it can get the chores done but it generally prefers to merely utter "I don't FEEL like it" and go back to watching reruns of Psych and pissing around on the computer.

I still wanted to dedicate some time to an art blog, but just one with a more forgiving posting schedule.
A friend of mine from deviantart started up a project where she's going to illustrate every Beatles song. You can find her here: http://illustratedbeatles.blogspot.com/.

That gave me an idea. While the Beatles have certainly had their share of influence over the art and music of the past fifty years, they have not lit the proverbial fire under me quite like they have for some others. At least... not over time. There was a period of little over a year where I ate, slept, and breathed the Beatles. That time has now passed, and I can appreciate them without an obsession looming over my head.


So I got to thinking. Is there an artist that has had that kind of a lasting influence on me? Yes, there is. His name is Thomas Dolby.
Most of you probably only know "She Blinded Me With Science" and maybe "Hyperactive" if you're an 80s freak, but my first real exposure to him was the music he composed for a short computer animation film called "Gate to the Mind's Eye". My first real exposure to his music were the three songs he composed for the film "FernGully:The Last Rainforest", but I wouldn't connect him with that until years later.

I have decided that for my new project blog, I will make a drawing/painting/photograph/whatever for every Thomas Dolby song. I realize it's kind of a lofty goal, but with the things I've learned while posting my previous blog, I feel like I can make it happen.

This blog will not be a post a day venture, and I feel like that will allow me to contemplate more complex pieces. There will also be far less pressure. I won't feel like I have to dig up some old pictures just to fulfill my post a day promise. So every piece will be new. With the exception of two Dolby related pieces I've already made.

Also, I haven't quite decided on the format. I'm thinking I can draw a picture for every song, and then go back through the list and take a photograph for every song. Or just do either and do the opposite when I go through the list again (i.e. draw a picture for a song the first time around, then take a photo for it the second time).

Anyhoo, I'm pretty excited to see where this blog takes me. I might even try to draw some readers in from the forums on Thomas Dolby's official site. It's a big ball of unknowns right now and for once that does not intimidate me.