Five Players

Five Players, acrylics on paper, A3, 11.5 x 16.5"
Five Players, acrylics on paper, A3, 11.5 x 16.5″

The music series continues.  Five semi-realistic female figures will pale to blue-white skin perform.  Four instruments are visible.  One stairs straight ahead, eyes misaligned,another has eyes that are mere slits, two are in profile, three straight on, one wears what appears to be a glove, legs mingle, some disappear, arms there and not there.

Xylophone Player at the Palau

Xylophone Player at the Palau

Xylophone player at the Palau de la Musica, Valencia, Spain.  Fun house floor suggests a departure from every day reality, meeting with the muse, traveling to the realm of creativity.

xylophone player sm

Comments from my Facebook timeline July 24, 2016

Marti: Loved it Gary!

Sandra: This is fabulous Gary!

Carol: I love the energy.

Patricia: The combination treatments of floor patterns are interesting

Video: Paintings and Drawings Done at Palau de la Musica

Singer Sax Drummer detail 2

The paintings and drawings in this video slide show were done at Palau de la Musica, Valencia.  They explore the state of mind we experience as music transports us to a semi dream-like state.  The paintings and drawings in this video slide show were done at Palau de la Musica, Valencia.  They explore the state of mind we experience as music transports us to a semi dream-like state.  The music is Arco de Noe by Oscar Navarro, a Valencian composer.  He was in the audience the day we heard this piece.

Palau de la Musica Small Stage

Another in the series of paintings based on drawings done at the Palau de la Musica in Valencia, Spain.  The audience waits expectantly as the musicians arrive.  Valencia has a long and powerful tradition of symphonic bands and offer many free concerts each year.  This is a smaller hall and here you can listen to more traditional music.

 

 

Palau de la Musica Small Stage 18 x 24
Palau de la Musica Small Stage 21″ x 26″, 52 cm x 66cm

Palau de la Musica Small Stage, detail

 

Palau de la Musica Small Stage, from a drawing made at the Palau in Valencia, Spain
Palau de la Musica Small Stage, detail

Palau de la Musica Small Stage detail
Palau de la Musica Small Stage, detail

Two Brown Bass Fiddles at the Palau

Two Brown Fiddles

Two Brown Bass Fiddles at the Palau

This started life as a drawing at Palau de la Musica.  I enlarged the original, a tiny 2 x 4″ and put it on the canvas board, then painted in with acrylics.  See also Two Fiddles at the Palau, a version of this based on the very same drawing.

 

Two Brown Fiddles
Two Brown Fiddles at the Palau, acrylics on canvas board, 40 x 50 cm, 16 x 20″

 

Contrabass at Palau de la Musica
Contrabass at Palau de la Musica, the pen and ink done on site

 

 

Piano Fingers: dancers and singers visit

Piano Fingers

 

Music enchants us, the dance, the singing, the skill, the magic.  It transports the listener to their own land of fantasies.  Dancers, singers, or something entirely unrelated can accompany our immersion in the tones.  This painting is an exploration of that dream state.

 

Piano Fingers
Piano Fingers, acrylics, 60 x 50 cm, 24 x 18 “, SOLD

 

A continuation of my music related series.  This is more realistic than some of my music paintings as the subject and presentation seem more suited to this style than an expressionistic approach given the importance of the hands.

The dancing couple is Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the two singers include friend Shena and her co-singer Lindsay in a San Francisco group.

Comments from Facebook:

Love this! 

Enchanting!  

Super imagination!  

Excellent!  Bravo!

¡Que hermosa obra, Gary!

So wonderful love it! 

Romantic and meaningful!  

That’s art!  

 

Piano Fingers , pen and ink
Piano Fingers , pen and ink