Saturday, May 24, 2008

A Young Neil Young


A referenced digital painting of my favorite singer-songwriter of all time. Not so sure about the background and guitar sharing the same color will have to study into that and see how that effects the composition later. Does it poke holes in the image? Create confusion with positive and negative space? Or does it simply emphasize mr. young's body over the guitar's body? Ugh.

Some quick lyrics to go with the pic:

Old man lying by the side of the road
With the lorries rolling by,
Blue moon sinking from the weight of the load
And the buildings scrape the sky,
Cold wind ripping down the alley at dawn
And the morning paper flies,
Dead man lying by the side of the road
With the daylight in his eyes.

Dont let it bring you down
Its only castles burning,
Find someone whos turning
And you will come around.

Blind man running through the light of the night
With an answer in his hand,
Come on down to the river of sight
And you can really understand,
Red lights flashing through the window in the rain,
Can you hear the sirens moan?
White cane lying in a gutter in the lane,
If youre walking home alone.

Dont let it bring you down
Its only castles burning,
Just find someone whos turning
And you will come around.

Neil Young's "Don't Let It Bring You Down" off of the album "After the Goldrush"

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