My choice for today's playlist on the Top 2000 is #1789: "The Pretender," by Jackson Browne. I've been a major fan of Jackson's for my whole adult life. I find his songwriting to be absolutely amazing. Seeing The Pretender on the list for today, it was a no-brainer that this was my song of choice!
The Pretender was released in 1976, and has a completely different feel for me, than Magical Mystery Tour (yesterday's pick). More urban, more bleak. I tried to reflect that in my page.
Here's' how it turned out...
Layer one of randomly brushing these colors onto the page...
some spray inks to make it even more grungy looking...
Then I decided we need some texture and contrast, so out came Julie Balzer's chevron stencil and some Ranger color wash...
At this point I did a google search for images of Jackson, that had the right "feeling" for the page. I came up with these three...
I decided on the top left-hand image; printed it on matte photo paper, cut it out, and glued it down. I added a few more elements with paint, and then chose the part of the lyric that represents the song best to me. Here again, is the finished page...
and here's a video for the Pretender, where Jackson explains the meaning of the song before he sings it. I love this...
To check out everyone's art for today, click here to go to Marit's Top 2000 headquarters!
Thanks so much for visiting! Come on back tomorrow for day 3 of the Top 2000!
The Pretender was released in 1976, and has a completely different feel for me, than Magical Mystery Tour (yesterday's pick). More urban, more bleak. I tried to reflect that in my page.
Here's' how it turned out...
and here's a little bit of the process I went through for making the page...
The first thing I did was gather together colors that I felt represented the emotion of the song ...
some spray inks to make it even more grungy looking...
Then I decided we need some texture and contrast, so out came Julie Balzer's chevron stencil and some Ranger color wash...
At this point I did a google search for images of Jackson, that had the right "feeling" for the page. I came up with these three...
I decided on the top left-hand image; printed it on matte photo paper, cut it out, and glued it down. I added a few more elements with paint, and then chose the part of the lyric that represents the song best to me. Here again, is the finished page...
and here's a video for the Pretender, where Jackson explains the meaning of the song before he sings it. I love this...
To check out everyone's art for today, click here to go to Marit's Top 2000 headquarters!
Thanks so much for visiting! Come on back tomorrow for day 3 of the Top 2000!
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