"A life filled with staccatos is marked by quick movements and decisions." A staccato in music is indicated by a dot over the music note. It tells the musician to play the note(s) with a quick detached movement. In comparing this term to real life, it aptly describes the person who gets a lot done with quick movements and decisions. (Tonight is show time for the pieces I've created this past week. They will be given away tonight at the Opening Reception for "Perspectives". Details can be found on pactofaustin.com/)
Since my college degree is in music, I do enjoy building a piece around music or making analogies between music and art. The easiest way to include a "snippet" of music in your art is to transfer it to the piece with graphite paper. Begin by making a copy of the music and watching how the paper passes through the copy machine. Take that copy and place a piece of tracing paper over the part that you've selected. Tape all four corners with removable tape. Hand feed it back through the copier the same way it went through the first time. Transferring an image with tracing paper works better because it's so thin. Plus, you can see where it needs to be positioned on the piece.
This same technique works very well with lightweight Japanese papers for the purposes of a collage. You will need to spray it with spray acrylic coating for inclusion in a piece. Just something to try or think about.
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