The Beatles, All You Need Is Love – Soundwave Art by Alex Patterson.
Music and art are 2 of the biggest loves and inspirations in my life. Creating art from music perfectly combines both. The soundwave is converted into a visual wave and then manipulated in photoshop in various ways to create my soundwave art. The beauty of working this way is that the music directly inspires where the artwork may end up.
I can create original personalised soundwave art from any song or any audio file. Just visit my project shop site mono wave art.
Alternatively, if you want a song created in a unique style, just get in touch and i’ll happily sort something out for you. info@monowaveart.co.uk
Available now at my art site, Monowaveart.co.uk – CLICK HERE!
Al Green, Let’s Stay Together – Soundwave Art by Alex Patterson.
Music and art are 2 of the biggest loves and inspirations in my life. Creating art from music perfectly combines both. The soundwave is converted into a visual wave and then manipulated in photoshop in various ways to create my soundwave art. The beauty of working this way is that the music directly inspires where the artwork may end up.
Always liked this song by Al Green. Love how it was used in the soundtrack of one of my favourite movies (Pulp Fiction) too.
I can create original personalised soundwave art from any song or any audio file. Just visit my project shop site mono wave art.
Alternatively, if you want a song created in a unique style, just get in touch and i’ll happily sort something out for you. info@monowaveart.co.uk
Available now at my art site, Monowaveart.co.uk – CLICK HERE!
The Stone Roses, I am the Resurrection Soundwave Art by Alex Patterson.
Music and art are 2 of the biggest loves and inspirations in my life. Creating art from music perfectly combines both. The soundwave is converted into a visual wave and then manipulated in photoshop in various ways to create my soundwave art. The beauty of working this way is that the music directly inspires where the artwork may end up.
The Stone Roses, in my view are one of the all time greatest bands. Creating this art was a great excuse to listen to one of my all time favourite albums (The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses). Had the pleasure of seeing them live last year at Heaton Park, Manchester. 100,000 people in a field enjoying great music is an experience i’ll never forget. In the above artwork, for the background, I have used the album cover art created by ex guitarist of The Stone Roses, John Squire. Squire is now a great artist, I’d definitely reccomend checking out his body of work.
I can create original personalised soundwave art from any song or any audio file. Just visit my project shop site mono wave art.
Alternatively, if you want a song created in a unique style, just get in touch and i’ll happily sort something out for you. info@monowaveart.co.uk
Available now at my art site, Monowaveart.co.uk – CLICK HERE!
The anatomy of a mash up. Cameron Adams, aka “The Man in Blue”, mashed up, edited and remixed some of his favourite Daft Punk songs. Definitive Daft Punk reveals the entire structure of Daft Punk’s track list: the cutting, layering, levels and equalisation of 23 different songs.
By dividing up the sound data for each song and computing its appearance in realtime, the visualisation combines a circular waveform of each of the songs concurrently being played with an audio map timeline at the bottom showing each song color-coded.
I couldn’t believe my eye holes recently when I recieved a message in my comments telling me that my blog had been nominated for a prestigious Liebster award. Possibly the first of many accolades, but i’ll try to refrain from getting ahead of myself. It’s not very often you feel noticed in the gigantic world of the internet so even the smallest bit of recognition is more than appreciated.
I was nominated by the fantastic and talented‘found this, painted that.’(If you aren’t following it already, you’re missing out). Go and follow it now before continuing….. I’ll wait.
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Followed it? fantastic, then we can continue.
The acceptance of my Liebster award comes with a few little hoops to jump through. That is par for the course with everything in life though. hmmm
Ok, here are the rules:
1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog and link back to them in your post. Hmmm, I think I already did that but they deserve a second link in case you skipped the bit where I told you to follow them already. Thankyou ‘found this, painted that.’keep up the good work.
2. Answer the 11 questions from the nominator, list 11 random facts about yourself and create 11 questions for your nominees. See below for this stuff.
3. Present the Liebster Blog Award to 11 blogs who you feel deserve to be noticed and leave a comment on their blog letting them know they have been chosen. Ok, I’ll have to do that over the next week or so.
4. Copy and Paste the blog award on your blog.
(Copied and pasted this whole section and award image came along for the ride Yay!) I’ve also put it on my main banner. I’m so proud. Note: (These are the “rules” but please feel free to do as you wish. If you have 5 bloggers to nominate instead of 11, and you can only think of 7 random facts about yourself – that’s perfectly fine! )
Questions from ‘Found this painted that’, to me.
1. If you were a superhero, what would your powers be? – Evil Psychic hypnotist.
2. What colour is your bedroom? – A tasteful cream with an accent wall of blue/grey.
3. What’s your idea of the best gift to give? – Anything hand made or with some personal thought put into it.
4. If you could only choose one, would you be beautiful or smart? – Smart
5. What’s the longest amount of time you were away from your home? – Other than when I was at University, only a couple of weeks. That kind of makes me sad for some reason.
6. What do you consider to be the hardest thing you’ve ever done? – I once did a skydive. but adrenalin got me through it.
7. When are you most creative? A.M or P.M – Without a shadow of doubt I’m a night time person. P.M.
8. Ocean or mountains? – I love to surf so it has to be the ocean.
9. Book or computer? – Computer. Sadly, I never seem to have time to read much anymore.
10. Dog or cat?– Dogs are much better but I like that cats have some level of freedom.
11. Coffee or tea? – Coffee. More caffeine the better.
11 Random facts about me:
1. Been playing video games since I was 4 years old in 1980.
2. Can’t stomach mayonaise but have nothing against its ingredients.
3. Life motto, is a cynical ‘question everything’.
4. Favourite comedy is ‘Monty Pythons Life of Brian’
5. I can’t grow a full beard.
6. Hate getting my haircut even though my mother is a hairdresser.
7. I really like biting into blocks of cheese. – guilty pleasure.
8. I’ve arranged my DVD collection into colour order.
9. I have watched ‘First Blood’ more than any other movie. – great film.
10. I very rarely get bored. I can always find something to waste my time.
11. One of my front two teeth is dead, the other is smashed in half and capped.
My questions for my nominees:
1. What is the best car you have driven?
2. How much wood can a wood chuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
3. What is the first single or album you bought?
4. What is your guilty pleasure?
5. Starwars (original trilogy – prequels don’t exist) or Star trek?
6. Savoury snacks (Crisps(chips if US),olives,pretsils) or sweet snacks (Jellies, chocolate, candy)?
7. Should you throw food out if it says its out of date or trust your nose?
8. What is it called when you slide your scissors through paper or fabric without squeezing them?
9. What is your favourite ‘go to’ website?
10. What really annoys you or creeps you out, even though it really shouldn’t.
11. If you’re not from the UK, what is your perception of British people? If you are, slag of the yanks! haha!
Can’t wait to see all your crazy answers.
Thankyou for your likes, follows, comments and most of all for inspiring me to actually do some creative stuff, rather than watching tv, looking at websites, playing playstation, eating pizza, watching movies and generally procrastinating.
Superman – Man of Steel has been released. The latest gritty reboot to the Superman franchise. I am still yet to see the movie but I am reliably informed that it is pretty damn good.
Hope you like my Supermantone art. If you do, and would like to purchase a high quality 50cm art print, just send me a message and i will sort something out. All prints are signed and numbered for authenticity.
As a tribute to May 4th, I’ve compiled some of my Star Wars art. I’ve also added some fun, unusual facts. Some I didn’t know until today. As a big Star Wars fan (Not the prequels – they don’t count) I like that there is still so many random things I don’t know. May the Force be with you.
Please visit my society6 store where you can purchase prints, canvases and throw cushions of these works and others. If you are from the UK visit my art shop site where you can get high quality prints quality controlled by myself at Mono Wave Art. If there are any artworks here that you don’t see available just send me a message and i’ll sort something out.
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Yoda Fact – Yoda was intended to be his second name. His first name was going to be Minch. Minch Yoda – Weird.
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Boba Fett Fact – The braided ropes Boba wears around his shoulders are made from the pelts of Wookiees that he’d killed.
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Stormtrooper Fact – In the US it has been ruled that the Stormtrooper armour design is under copyright. However a 2011 UK court decision considered it to be industrial design, which is only protected for 15 years, and thus the armor is now in the public domain, but only in the UK.
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R2D2 Fact – In ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ R2D2 makes an unlikely cameo in the form of ancient hieroglyphics.
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Emporers Guards Fact – The Imperial Red guards apparently concealed armour, more advanced than a Stormtroopers under their robes. Not too tough really as Stormtrooper armour doesn’t allow much mobility or visibility and doesn’t protect from blasters.
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Han Solo Fact – Kurt Russell almost got the part of Han Solo. Nick Nolte, Billy Dee Williams, Burt Reynalds, and Chrisopher Walken also auditioned for the part. Harrison Ford was not even allowed to audition until late in the process
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Death Star Fact – In the Italian version of Star Wars, the Death Star is called “Morte Nera”, which literally means “Black Death”.
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Darth Vader Fact – Vader never says, “Luke, I am your father.”
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Chewbacca Fact – Chewy is a Wookiee (Wookiee has two E’s, OMG, I really shoul’ve known that.)
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C3P0 Fact – Although mainly gold, C3PO had a silver right leg. Never noticed this back in the 80s when I was a kid.
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Jabba Fact – Voice actor, Larry Ward speaks Jabba’s Huttese in Return of the Jedi. He is not credited for his work.
Emporer Fact – Simply, that he frightened the crap out of me in 1983.
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‘Pantatooine’ Starwars art is created using a 40 x40 grid of 1600 (one thousand six hundred – Phew!!) swatches each. The swatch choice for each square is an average colour of that section of the photograph or scene. Close up each square is simply a Pantone (Pantatooine) swatch, From a distance, the whole image is revealed in detail.
The simple stylized minimalist illustrations are created in Adobe Illustrator. My concept was to restrain the images to a square (intended to go on cushions etc.) and use flat colours. No gradients or shading allowed.
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Prints and such available from my society6 store. (will be updating soon.)
Top quality art prints can be bought at my own art shop Mono Wave Art. UK only at the moment.
ironman mark 35 red snapper pantone art by Alex Patterson
To celebrate the release of Iron Man 3 I endeavored to create some custom Pantone style swatch art. I named them “Ironmantone” 🙂. Each piece depicts the suits that are on show in the Iron Man 3 movie.
All created from Pantone style colour swatches. Each “Ironmantone” is made from 1600 individual swatches in a 40×40 grid. Each swatch is the average colour of the particular region of the image. Look up close and all you will see are coloured square Pantone style swatches; Take a step back and the iron man 3 suits are revealed. To purchase any of these prints send a message and i will make them available at my web art store Mono-Wave-Art.
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Check out my spiderman , comic, and newcastle Pantone style swatch art I’ve created. Also, please visit my shop mono-wave-art where some of my prints are available for UK purchase.
If you liked these, help me get my name ‘out there’ by liking, linking, re-blogging, tweeting, pinning etc. All help is extremely welcome… as are custom commissions :).
I’d love to hear your thoughts – good, bad and indifferent. Just send me a message.
Art by myself, depicting some landmarks in and around my home city of Newcastle Upon Tyne. All painstakingly created from Pantone style colour swatches. Each image is constructed as a 40×40 square grid comprising of 1600 individual swatches. Each swatch is the average colour of the particular region of the image. Looking closely and all you will see is a series of coloured square Pantone swatches; Take a few steps back and the stunning landmarks are revealed.
The Angel of the North divides the local residents. Some love it as an icon of the nort east, while others see it as an unsightly blot on the landscape. Personally I like it.
Fog on the Tyne Pantone art by Alex Patterson
Fog on the Tyne inspired by a recent conversation with a friend – Cheers Brendan
The bridges over the Tyne are iconic, stunning, pictoresque and well worth a visit. The above image is the view from the Gateshead side of the High Level bridge. You can make out the beautiful shape of the Tyne bridge as well as its bright red neighbour, the Swing Bridge.
Grey’s Monument Pantone art by Alex Patterson
Grey’s monument sits at the heart of Newcastle. Erected as a tribute to Lord Charles Grey for passing the great reform act of 1832.
St. James’ Park Pantone art by Alex Patterson
Dominating the Newcastle skyline is St. James Park, home to Newcastle United Football Club since it opened in 1892. It now regularly holds over 50,000 geordies after renovations between 1998 and 2000.
St. James’ Park Pantone art by Alex Patterson
It’s a shame that permission cannot be gained to continue the stands around the whole stadium to create a 100,000 seated mega stadium.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions, suggestions, ideas, commissions. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
High resolution quality 50x50cm art prints are available on request. For more cool art visit my personalised soundwave art and art print shop at MonoWaveArt.co.uk.
A is for Rebel AKA Alex Patterson 