My Guitar can *SING* by Nikki Smith
Copyright 2012 Nikki Smith of BookSmithStudio.com; All Rights Reserved. Fine art prints available up to 45" x 60"!
Recently, I've been so busy creating art (and, I admit, getting distracted by life in general) that I realize I've neglected to blog about so many things! Even big things like getting published - twice! So I decided to correct that today (at least a little) by sharing my latest artwork series, inspired by music.
The below piece just tied for 1st place in a competition on Fine Art America this morning, which made my day!
Guitar Lover's Embrace by Nikki Smith
Copyright 2012 Nikki Smith of BookSmithStudio.com; All Rights Reserved. Fine art prints available up to 45" x 60"!
A kind thank-you to the beautiful model and photographer, Lina Tsu
I've decided that I love to create a body of work in a cohesive series whenever possible. So, naturally, I couldn't stop with just two. Here are the next two in this series:
Sexy Saxophone by Nikki Smith
Copyright 2012 Nikki Smith of BookSmithStudio.com; All Rights Reserved. Fine art prints available up to 45" x 60"!
Guitar Siren by Nikki Smith
Copyright 2012 Nikki Smith of BookSmithStudio.com; All Rights Reserved. Fine art prints available up to 45" x 60"!
A kind thank-you to the beautiful and talented model Sarah Fleming.
I am very tempted to do one of these guitar art poses as a self-portrait, too. I'm just short a guitar at the moment...
UPDATE: I finally did it! Here is my self portrait:
Music Was My First Love by Nikki Smith
Copyright 2012 Nikki Smith of BookSmithStudio.com; All Rights Reserved. Fine art prints available up to 45" x 60"!
In keeping with the music theme, below is a great resource list of Public Domain and Creative Commons music and sounds. If you have ever wanted to add (legal!) background music to a YouTube video, needed a stray sound effect or just love to explore new music this list is just what you need:
- IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library - over 67,000 music scores
- The Freesound Project - A variety of sounds such as: birdsong, thunderstorms, voice snippets
- ccMixter - Creative commons licensed music, perfect for backgrounds
- Wikipedia Soundlist - Thank-you again, Wikipedia!
- Digital History Project - From the University of Houston, this is an incredibly interesting collection of historical, public domain music divided by type and historical period. Jazz, the Gilded Age, the Civil War, World War 1, etc.
- Dewey Music - An organized way to search Archive.org's public domain music
- Musopen - Plus, they also have a great collection of public domain sheet music
(Please double-check the license before downloading music files.)
I hope this list helps someone! I know there are a ton of interesting resources out there. What are your favorites?
Now, I mentioned that I've had a lot going on in my artistic life recently that I haven't blogged about. I didn't want to cram everything into one post, so expect another post in the next week or so on my Steampunk collage mixed-media series (those are so fun to make!), or my patent artwork series, or my recently published artwork and articles... Hmmm, what to share first? In the meantime, I hope you've enjoyed this little taste of music.
I'll leave you with a question -- what do you enjoy listening to when you create? What music moves and inspires you?