Mark Hartzheim
Series:
Music to My Ears
Music to My Ears
Inspired by an old music notebook of my wife's who learned the accordion as a teenager, I began by embellishing the four handwritten songs on the first pages. The quaint Czech titles reflect the themes of love and longing in these traditional folklore songs.
I then proceeded to write my own "compositions" on the remaining empty pages, using only the horizontal lines of the staff as a point of orientation.

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Pověz mě, má milá (Tell me, my dear), 2014
watercolor, colored pencil, graphite on manuscript paper
16,5 x 25,3 cm

Před našim je zahrádečka
(In front of our house a small garden), 2014
watercolor, graphite, ink on manuscript paper
16,5 x 25,3 cm


Ocička má jako trnka (She has little eyes like plums), 2014
watercolor, ink on manuscript paper
16,5 X 25,3 cm

Kdo chce peknů ženu mat.
(If you want a beautiful woman.), 2015
watercolor, ink on manuscript paper
16,5 X 25,3 cm

Scrawl, 2014
16,5 X 25,3 cm
watercolor, graphite on manuscript paper

The Lyrical I (Reprise), 2014
watercolor, graphite on manuscript paper
16,5 X 25,3 cm

Combined Forces I, 2015
watercolor, graphite on manuscript paper
16,5 X 25,3 cm

Combined Forces II, 2015
watercolor, graphite on manuscript paper
16,5 X 25,3 cm

Fruition, 2015
watercolor, graphite, ink on manuscript paper
16,5 X 25,3 cm

(Everything's) Coming Together, 2014
watercolor, graphite on manuscript paper
16,5 X 25,3 cm

Healing Scars, 2015
watercolor, graphite on manuscript paper
16,5 X 25,3 cm

Epiphany II, 2015
watercolor, graphite on manuscript paper
16,5 X 25,3 cm

Playground, 2015
watercolor, graphite on manuscript paper
16,5 X 25,3 cm


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