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Aries the Ram

This is a test....

Taurus the Bull One of the challenges I set myself with this series of pictures was to use only the “4-scales” colour schemes attributed to each one — sometimes, as with this one, those are colours I wouldn’t normally or naturally put together, like in this one! Taurus has colour scales that felt like they’re all over the place, whereas the previous one, Aries, had scales that were all pretty similar — both challenging in different ways. Still others are in colours I don’t necessarily gravitate towards using in my everyday stuff (like music lyrics sheets for my albums’ songs). Forcing myself to try to bring out a coherent idea and a decent-looking picture within these set “limitations” is a really nice challenge, and it’s pretty exciting! I hit upon this idea because I started with the Crab picture, which I did for fun and because I happen to like crustaceans, with no idea to creating a zodiac series at that point. I was just tired and making a crab picture...like you do... I noticed only afterwards that I happen to (!) have done it in precisely the colours that would have been prescribed for a Cancer crab. Anyway!! I’m enjoying the hell out of this, and I hope you enjoy them, too. “But wait, aren’t you a musician? What’s with these non-music pictures?” I can’t say for certain, but…. all this stuff joins up somewhere in my unconscious, it’s all connected. When it comes out in the music, I’ll have a moment of understanding about why I’m doing these pictures in the way I’m doing them. That’s pretty exciting to me, too. Anyway! That’s enough chatter for now… I hope your day is pretty good.