Added on Mon 7 Jan 2008
A new beginning
Have any of you seen websites like a painting a day? I discovered that website a while ago now. I since discovered there are quite a few people doing similar things all over the web.
Well I figure, the excuse of a new year is enough to go and give something similar a wack. But I don’t want to simply copy that exact idea, that’s a little boring… so I’m added something right from the middle of my own grey matter.
Not that it’s a bad idea on it’s own, but maybe to some it’s not quite there. I think to many, art is not really a heartfelt interest, so I want to put a bit more into the mix. After all, we’re all wanting more. Yep, more for the average everyday peruser of pages like this one…
(did you know that peruse should actually mean to read or study thoroughly, but I’ve never known that and only ever used it to mean something like ‘browse’ or ‘lightly read’)
so what I’m talking about is art and then some. And that’s a special ‘some’, which in the end, might just be enough to raise your interest in art all round. Which I guess sounds like a nice goal. This didn’t actually have a goal until just then mind you.
Do you get the feeling I’ve built this up a little too much? Well anyway, here it is.
Music, I also love listening to all sorts of music, or more precisly, all of the sorts of music that I like anyway. Which is not all sorts of music truth be told but a great many sorts of it at least. And it occurred to me that what I used to do - years ago in the privacy of my bedroom, can now be brought out into public thanks to the internet. That is to paint or ‘do pictures’ as I prefer to say, I hate using the word ‘paintings’) that relate directly to a particular song. What I’m going to do pick my current high rotation album; and paint a picture for each of the songs on there. Hopefully, one per day. Take a photo of it, put it up here somewhere and write a quick thing about the song and the picture. Maybe even trying to explain how I think they are related! Yes! I know that in itself is nothing, anything like a new idea. But it’s new enough for me. Plus it’s something I like doing anyway.
One more thing, and I’m not sure if this is the right place to express this disclaimer, but I should say that I don’t ever intend to make a connection between song and art that necessarily makes sense to you. Actually in all likelihood, it will make sense to no one but me. But that doesn’t mean it’s not still interesting look at and read about… right?
Oh, and I almost forgot to say this whole thing is going to be interactive as well! Yes, I’ll put each picture on eBay the same day I stick it on here. So you can bid on it and buy it if you like it. Maybe that’s not the type of interactivity you were hoping for, but well that’s going to have to suffice for now.
There’s no point talking about this any further as I already have gone ahead and got my first painting done. There should be a link somewhere to it here once I get on with uploading the picture and writing somthing about it. I have to in fact as it is already listed on eBay as I type.