Video: Art Ideas for Inspiration: Matching Music to an Art Project

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Create art based on a certain style of music. Draw inspiration from music by following the tips in this free painting and drawing lesson from an art instructor.

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iaintgotit May 28, 2009
great concept!

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We're still working with music here, but this time I'm taking an idea from a Chinese way of painting where they paint on a scroll. They'll do a landscape that covers a scroll, one is like a hundred feet long, and it's almost like a panoramic view, and they just keep drawing a long the scroll. So we're going to draw along with the music so that you end up with a whole concerto on a roll of paper. This is just plain old craft paper, it's nothing fancy. You'll want to use paint or ink, something fluid so that you can move along, although charcoal would work too. I just wouldn't work with pencil, it doesn't probably move fast enough. And I'm just going to get ready, standing up is maybe better for this so that you can move your arm more, and then you're just going to let it roll up as you move along. So I'm going up, and I'll move myself along. Of course with this you really need a.... And then I have this, just sort of this general feeling down here of that bit in between the very rhythmic section. And I'm already running out of my paper so I'll turn around and use the other side. And you kind of try to get your body working with the rhythm that you feel. And you keep going back, and you can kind of hear this rhythm. And then what tends to happen with the Brandenburg Concertos is they start really small and very soft, and then they're going to end up getting bigger and louder, and that's when your shapes will start echoing the loudness.

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Art Ideas for Inspiration: Matching Music to an Art Project

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