Showing posts with label art sketches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art sketches. Show all posts

Monday, September 26, 2016

Emotion as Forms of Color and Texture

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There are two methods of creativity: combining or rearranging existing elements into new structures or inventing elements with which to create forms and structures. One method is related to discovery and extraction whereas the other method is pure creation - bringing into being something from nothing, or thought alone.


So in the first case, the artist is taking existing elements and shaping them into something interesting or unique relative to what others have done with the same set of ingredients or elements.

In the second case, the artist is forming new materials, out of thin air, and putting them together into a unique combination that is specific to their artistic vision. This is the method which was used to form our universe as is believed in the theory of Creationism.




Of the two methods of creativity only the first method or locating materials, extracting them, and arranging them into unique and pleasant forms is what artists on Earth are capable of using in music and sketch.


Color is a quality shared by the sketch and music.



With the sketch the issue of color is primarily with the harmony of color, blending of hues, and shading (relative brightness and darkness).


Similarly, music possesses the quality of color, except in music color can be expressed in timbre, dynamic elements, volume, composition and dramatic performance.


With timbre each instrument or sound in a piece of music possesses a certain quality that helps to identify and define one sound from another. In other words, each instrument has its own voice and can  be identified and not mistaken for another.



Closely related to timbre is texture, which is the harmonious (or disharmonious) blending of different types of timbre. Combining a variety of timbres within a composition is what develops a textural soundscape in each piece of music. When musicians layer several instruments or voices with different timbres, what they are in effect doing is constructing texture.




Texture in music comes across either as a visual or tactile sensation. Where we can describe a sound as sharp, piercing, smooth, jagged, rough, dirty, deep, or shiny, then in a crude way we were describing timbre in the form of texture or other tactile qualities.


The harmony or disharmony of the timbre into a pattern of texture is what forms the basis for emotion in a sketch or a piece of music.




With the sketch, texture only becomes apparent when you mix or layer media or when you use a media like acrylic paint or oil paints which are thick relative to other media such as pastels. Texture in the sketch has the effect of literally coming off the page because it can stand up or be thickly applied to paper or canvas. This style is mostly used in fine art painting where the brushstrokes are clearly visible. But in general it’s a physical thing where the artist is turning the two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional object.




Music makes an impression on the ear, while sketch does so in the eye. The thought and care that the artist has poured into their work will finally manifest its clarity and message from the end product across space and time by leaping into the mind of the audience by creating an impression.

If the impression has meaning for the seer or hearer of a sketch or a piece of music, then the impression will rise in status within the mind and evolve into an emotional experience that connects the artwork with a person's outlook on life, their aspirations for the future, and even their emotional history.





Art has the power to inspire others by adding fuel to the desires for the future. Art has the gift of shaping a person's sense of life by becoming an essential accessory to their way of living. Art also carries with it the emotional impact the artist imbues it with and how this interacts with the past of the audience member.


When a sketch or music impresses itself deeply into the mind of the audience member, the impression evolves into emotional impact, which is what the artist is seeking when they decide to share their work publicly.


As the work of the artist approaches completion, where the shape, texture, colors, and objects are balanced or imbalanced within a sketch or in music, the piece undergoes one final test to determine its value and function. If the artwork has the ability to the serve the purpose of the artist by making a deep psychological impression that becomes a meaningful emotional impact which fuses itself into the mind of the individual audience member, then the piece has value and serves its function.


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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Lines, Texture, and Sound Waves

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In terms of physics, music and sketching are very similar because they both deal in waves. One craft is sensed with the ears and the other with the eyes. But more fundamentally, both deal in waves.

With music the waves emanate from vibrating objects, while with picture sketches photons emanate from the page with a source of light and translate in our brains as vision. The colors vibrate at their different hues to contact the eye and reach the brain just as the line of shape produces the suggestion of an image.

Similarly, music vibrates the eardrum which moves a series of small bones that send an electrical signal to the brain. Ultimately, with any art the entire goal is to reach the brain of the person and to elicit a judgment or decision about what they perceive in a work of art.

Lines
Lines play a role in both music and sketching. In the sketch, line is what forms the shape of objects as well as provides many of their details. An incomplete line too, suggesting the shape of an object’s form, provides our vision with enough of an outline to force the brain to see the object clearly through the imagination.  



In music, the line will take form as the shape of the melody, lyric, or meter (rhythm), their combination, and overall effect. Sound expressed in multi-layered forms and stretched across time is how musical lines are structured.

The concept of the line in art and creativity denotes the direction of artistic ideas stretched across time or expressed in an object.



Texture
When the line of an artistic thought achieves a certain density, it begins to manifest texture.

When the image or details from a painting or sketch seems to jump out from the canvas or page and displays three-dimensionality, this is texture manifested. And when the sounds in a piece of music seem to fill a space where you perceive each sonic object as originating from different directions, this too is texture manifested.



Texture in sketch and music can be manifested in thickness, distances, angles, smoothness, shape, brightness, depth, and their opposites. Playing with the opposing characteristics of each of these factors is what gives texture its unique quality.
In its most extreme manifestation, texture imbues the art experience with the feeling that the artwork is reaching out towards the audience in an attempt to make physical contact. Done effectively, texture can surround or overwhelm the individual’s senses in a flood of perceptions that grips their imagination.




In both of these arts, the lines of artistic expression, their combined effect, and all the details that each mark, brushstroke, or recorded vibration, displays in relation to every other line is what transmits artistic impressions from the artist to the audience.

The value of these impressions is in their ability to communicate sensations of urgencies, significances, and importance to the person perceiving the piece of music or sketch.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Connection, the Contribution of the Artist and Viewer

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After working on developing the skill for making and coloring sketches, I only recently have felt comfortable sharing them with others in my personal life and now I am sharing them with my readers. In congruence with my idea of “creativity overflow,” which I describe in my article “The Overflow of Creativity: Why Artists Need to Find New Areas to Conquer, New Worlds to Explore,” I’ve found it necessary to find new artistic outlets for my creative impulses. Partly encouraged by a dear associate and by my own curiosity, I’ve achieved a level of skill that I’m happy with and suit my purposes as an artist. And now I’d like to share some of my thoughts with you about my experiences as a sketch artist and how it relates to my work as a musician.



As a sketch artist, my purpose is to achieve a communication or a conveyance that shapes an impression. I’m not going for perfection, but rather I’m allowing the viewer to contribute some their own artistic vision to my images in order to fill them out to completion. Both, my sketches and music are illustrations intended to form moments – instances of miraculous agreement or enjoyment (or disapproval) – between myself as the artist and the viewer or listener as a fellow participant. I consider it my job to give them (their minds) just enough of the visual pieces to work with in order to convey an image that they can receive and add something to in order to form a final picture within their mind. I consider it my job to seek a contribution, in other words, I want a certain level of involvement from the viewer. I need the attention of the viewer to get engaged in the shaping of the image and the only way I feel to do that is to in some way leave something out, or to permit a missing piece to exist in which they can put something in.




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Thursday, January 1, 2015

The Overflow of Creativity in Thought and Practice: Now Featuring Art Sketches at Stereo Thesis

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As part of my return from hiatus I’d like to present to you a new development in my creative efforts. From now on I will be posting art sketches periodically along with articles discussing the relationship between my music and sketches. In later articles I plan on discussing some of my observations and realizations regarding the connections I discovered between the construction of music and the making of a sketch. As production begins to ramp up on a new future album release called “Oscilladrone: Ambient Works,” I figure it’d be a great time to talk about both subjects. And just out of curiosity I want to see if anyone else can see a connection between my music and sketches that I’m missing, perhaps a sense of humor, attention to detail, color or emotional tones, a playful approach, or some other quality.








[Note: I’ve found that in order to sketch architecture versus life forms requires very different mind sets. With architecture you must be very meticulous with your lines and proportioning or else you’ll get buildings and urban landscapes that look like they’re bending, smaller or larger than they really are, or shrinking the distance between your art object and the horizon far in the field of vision. In contrast, human figures whether they be shadows in the distance, faces, nudes, or human body postures such as sitting, standing, dancing, swimming or walking require much more attention to the shape of human anatomy, proportion, and the capturing of emotion or human life force. With practice, I’ve found that the number of mistakes I make is greatly reduced as well as the number of lines required to form the shape of the image I’m attempting to communicate. Employing simple and very few lines was one of the highest goals I wanted to achieve when I first began learning to sketch.]




At some point I'll have to figure out how to best organize the sketches for easy reference. I may also eventually offer a short digital sketchbook as a FREE download for promotional purposes and a larger edition for sale. Granted while finding time to produce new music as well as new sketches will be tough, it is possible with good time management. With that, here are the first series of sketches in, what I plan to be, a long line of releases to be shared over time for your viewing pleasure. So for now check these out and feel free to let me know what you think by adding a comment below.
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Marc
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