✌️Peace❤️Love🎶Music

027 Peace Love Music

My own design and I have proved to myself that I can use any font I like as long as it is installed on my laptop.  I can then print and cut them out to draw round.  That's exactly what I did here.

Here's how I did it

I sometimes like to add words and lettering to my pieces and in this case I wanted a very 60's, hippy feel to the art.  I have a stencil that I usually use but it is not a 60's font (or anything close to one) so I had a bit of a brainwave and it is very similar to previous templates I have used, with the only difference being, its a lot more tedious and time consuming.  It is also very much an experiment to see how well it works.  It also works out a lot cheaper than buying stencils that I will only use once or twice,

So, in Microsoft Paint I set out the words Peace Love Music and chose the font called 'Spicy Rice' to display it.  This font has a funky Nineteen Sixties feel to it.

I then carefully cut out each letter and positioned it where I wanted it on my prepared 8" x 8" canvas panel.  I secured it in place with a small piece of masking tape.  Then I very carefully drew around each letter with a sharp pencil.  See what I mean about it being tedious??

I then felt inspired by my last piece of Art, Psychedelic Swirls.  I wanted this design to be the background of each letter.  Another tedious bit.  So I got my tape reels and pots out and started drawing around them but only within the Spicy Rice letters.

I'm really loving this piece so far.  I can see it with a Pure Black Background and a few bright flowers scattered around.

I have added a Dove to symbolize Peace, Love represented by the hearts and Music Notes and flower power scattered around.  I think the Black background is really making those colours in the lettering stand out.

 

🎶 Hello Darkness, my old friend

 019 'Hello Darkness, my old friend' 

from the 1965 Song by Simon & Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence

 

New project today and carrying on with the song lyrics theme.

This will be "Hello darkness my old friend" from the Simon and Garfunkel 1966 hit 'The Sound of Silence'

Background is complete.  Dark Storm clouds and a lonely hill top - Perfect!

I have tilted the artwork in this photo so you can see the stencilled Song Lyrics pencilled in and ready to paint