The Violinist

The medium used is oil on canvas.
I love the works of Spanish surreal artists like Salvador Dali’s “Butterfly Windmills” and Italian artist Guiseppe Arcimboldo’s “The Librarian.” I love to create works from my own imagination that are not real. Looking at the picture of a young lady on my church’s notice board, I was inspired to do this painting. This young lady is a violinist in the church worship choir, and I chose to use her musical instrument to paint her portrait.
Tackling this project was a bit challenging for I wanted the portrait to be a real likeness of the young lady and the violin in the painting to be real as well. I faced the dilemma of fussing both images together. I need to decide whether to use the lady's skin colour or the violin's brown wood colour. I first attempted to fuss the image of the young lady and the violin together graphically and it looked grotesque. To preserve the aesthetic beauty of the work, I substituted the Tailpiece of the violin for the nose of the young lady and the Bridge of the violin for the teeth of the young lady. To complete the storyline of this painting, I used musical notes as the hair coming out from the violin and the sky in the background were dotted with musical notes.