Beethoven String Quartet in C Sharp Minor - OP.131

What a beautiful piece of music! I am still listening to it right now! It is soft, gentle... sad at moments and playful in others... but always so magical. It just entraps the listener in a spell. I am in complete adoration.

I drew this with feather and ink with a different approach than my usual. If I could get comments and suggestions (I always need those because I wish to improve), that would be nice.

The picture is very dreamlike because the music sort of made be dream off and get extremely absorbed in it and think of nothing else. Also, it made me think of my viola, which is why the woman's arm is reaching up as if to hold an instrument.

Vivaldi's Winter

Well, winter's coming on and everyone is getting sick so what can be more fitting?

This is a little feather and ink drawing I did yesterday evening. This style is nice because it is very quick (I did this in about 10 minutes) and you can get something off your mind. Also, it's nice because Vivaldi's "Winter" from the "Four Seasons" is approximately ten minutes so I didn't have to press the "play again" button.

Oh my, listening to this piece brings back such wonderful memories. I remember playing this a few months ago on viola. It is so, so beautiful. The eighth notes in the first movement always sort of put me under a spell.

Firebird

I drew this while listening to Strazinski's "Firebird Suite". A brilliant violist suggested I draw a picture to illustrate it. At first, I imagined a pheonix, a fiery red-gold bird soaring through the sky. Then, I began to listen to the more suptle, quiet details and decided that they gave life to the music.

One can notice that I used cool colours as well as warm colours in this picure. Although the lines are smooth and graceful, the bird's gaze is sharp and the lines are crisp. The intention was to try to convey the piercing contrasts in "Firebird". The tail feathers are semi-transparent to convey a sort of exotic mystery. The music is very magical.