I’ve recently been loving incorporating different dimensions of flow inducing creativity into one process…
Seeing what elements they can all bring, layering and adding to the depth of the piece. Like listening to different forms of music as I draw, seeing how each sound affects the pattern formations. Soft, circular pen dances with Gustavo Santaolla, erratic, dramatic movements with Bach and sharper, triangular shapes with Tokimonsta.
This then developed into another idea as I began to feel the fruits of mixing these different experiences. It was almost as if the patterns were coming alive in front of me with each different type of music, like some kind of animation.
So I decided to create a timelapse, trying to portray the idea of my art coming alive to music
... With each pattern reflecting the feel of that portion of the song.
And now onto the process...
I picked the song before starting the piece and created the mural to fit with the movement of the music. It was all manually done without any digital art software, like they would have made cartoons in the the olden days. So it was a process of drawing a line, walking back to the camera to take a photo and repeating until a pattern was formed and eventually until the piece was finished.
After that, I had almost 2000 photos to gradually put together. I'm sure there's a much faster way of doing it, but each of the photos were individually added to make sure everything fell in time the music the way I wanted it to :)
3 months, 160 hours, 1826 photos and 32 (and a half) pens later...
........... I ended up with 1 minute footage.
Haha. But it ended up being so much fun! And more importantly, so creatively enriching. Isn't that why we do all of this anyway?!