Listening To Old Non-Favorites

The title of tonight’s abstract expressionist illustration is “The Heatwave Time Machine”.

Lately I have been curating my playlist as I draw. I am aware that my choice of music dictates how my pen moves over the paper. The music creates the moods that in turn become the piece sometimes it’s classical, sometimes it’s musical scores or soundtracks, and for the first time it is power ballads from when I was in highschool. I avoided the cliche’ of listening to rock ballads but as I get older they seem to hit right where I need them to. Each song was a slow dance at a weekly highschool dance. I know it’s cheesy but maybe right now I need cheese. I am equating it to jump starting my art. These songs are sad but at the same time they are just the right amount of nostalgia. So I guess in my mind I will be hugging the girl I was dating and rocking side to side on the dance floor.