ROCK `N`BOLD - Original Acrylic Painting

RockNBold is my latest acrylic work, the newest addition to my musical instruments series. Since singing or playing an instrument was not in the cards for me, this is the closest I could ever get to making music.

After I primed my canvas, I created some texture on it, by pressing wooden shapes into the wet Gesso, using the wedges and even my fingers to spread the Gesso and make random patterns.

For this painting I wanted to have a different guitar. My initial ideas were to draw and paint a famous rock electric guitar or maybe even Prince`s famous blue guitar. After surfing the net and looking at various models, I settled for the acoustic model.

Because I had skipped drawing with a pencil my sketch on the canvas and actually verifying the real dimensions of this instrument, my guitar was a bit off and it had to be reshaped.

As for the piano, I wanted to have another type of piano, not the flowing keyboard that I had in my other paintings from this series. That`s how I ended up having a B&W brick-like piano keyboard. Or maybe lighthouse keyboard, as my son calls it, given its size and colours.
After a few layers of paint, it actually started to shape out nicely. Even with a missing neck, my electric guitar looked better.

Given that it was part of a series, I used the same colours but this time, I made the guitar red and the background yellow and blue.

Here are some details of the texture:

At this point I thought it was finished but something was still missing. I put it away for a day and then I knew what I had to do.

Small details make a difference. Notice how the right top part of the painting looked a bit plain in the photo above? Now check the first photo of this post to see what changed!

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ALL LIFE MATTERS
EQUILIBRIUM
SERENADE - MAKING OF
WHAT MAKES ONE AN ARTIST?
RAW MINDFULNESS
CORONA CHAOS
LOST BOY, MAKING OF
BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF DOODLING
JAMAICAN MAZE
THE WORLD IS MINE - MAKING OF
DRAGON STEPS, MAKING OF
THE POND - MAKING OF
FLUID ART
BLAZE - MAKING OF
VANITAS SERIES
LET YOUR INNER CHILD IGNITE YOUR CREATIVITY
UNDER THE BLUE -MAKING OF
DRAGON - MAKING OF
ART THERAPY, WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?
FUN WITH ACRYLICS
MAGICAL UNICORN- MAKING OF
MUSHROOM TABLE- DIY
OTHER PAINTINGS
WHAT SPARKS YOUR CREATIVITY?

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Lavi Picu is the author of three soulful poetry collections: Whiteless Thoughts, Burden of love and Tales of a moody heart. She is a Canadian writer, majored in Linguistics, with a background in translations and writing. She’s also a ghost writer, a blogger with a focus on arts and health, a Lyme disease advocate, a mother and a self-taught artist.

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