2012-02-06

154. Music Monday #5


Okay, since this one is definitely too difficult to figure out, I'll just reveal it:

Mike Oldfield - Dark Star

What was really interesting about the process of drawing this was how the star changed from radiating darkness to radiating light and finally to radiating both. I had thought about doing this with watercolours or acrylic paint, but it turned out that charcoal was an excellent choice: There's a lot of power in this music, it's very forceful, and it requires rather a lot of force to apply that much charcoal to a white paper to make it look this dark.
I love listening to a piece of music over and over again, and transforming the sounds into an image. This is a rather unusual one, though, because colours are normally important in that process...
For those who are interested in the music: Here's the version I was listening to.

2 comments:

  1. Ein ganz eindrucksvolles Bild! Sieht fast aus wie ein Auge. Auch ein bisschen creepy, wenn man es sich länger anschaut - man fühlt sich so "eingesogen".

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  2. Das Bild ist unglaublich! (da fehlen mir sogar die Worte, um es in Englisch auszudrücken ;)). Als ich es länger angeschaut habe kam es mir so vor, als würde das schwarze Innere immer größer werden, wie eine Pupille, und als ob es mich magisch anziehen würde (also im Prinzip der gleiche Eindruck, den lottapeppermint schon geschildert hat).

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