Barely secret 7 - Haunting Haunted Haunts

Since there's no secret 7 this year and I really wanted to do something musically based, I decided to do a similar thing but just with songs of my choosing.

This is the first one I've done for Against Me!'s Haunting Haunted Haunts.

Most inspiration for this came from the lyrics of the first verse "tonight I cant sleep because I'm haunted, so I'm breaking spells of intention, all I can see is the space inbetween, the space where you're missing" 

I just got a really witchy vibe from it, and as it's called 'haunting haunted haunts' I wanted to include a haunted house. 

The colour palette: purples are kind of mystical, I didn't want this to be too overpowering so stuck with limited palette, varying shades of pink / purples / greys / black

The original art for the album this is on is pink and black too so I thought using similar colours would hark back to that influence. 

I also mocked up a potential lyric insert, I think I would have to print it out to see if it would actually work (and I may very well do that) It sure is a LONG image though. 

Since the band is a punk rock band I thought my scrawly disjointed handwriting worked for the tone of the song. 

I love the different colours the text has gone over the top of the textured background, it's exactly what I imagined when I decided I was going to do a lyric sheet. 

My work if pretty rough around the edges but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, it's part of my personal style and I think this punk rock / textured kind of thing really lends itself to that style. 

I think there is still room for improvement because when is there not 

I decided as part of this project I would film it and make videos going along to the song it's for, so ya can see the art being made alongside the bangin tunes. 

I learned how to record my screen - which is useful, and I also learned 2-3 hours of footage is a bit of a struggle to condense into 2-3 minutes

I really love how the video turned out though I think next time I will focus in on the photoshop screen so that my other computer things going on aren't in shot, and also a clean desk space would be more presentable (but I am a messy person so is that truly going to happen?)

Looking forward to turning this into a series!!

I'm really finding combining media great fun as I can stockpile lots of components and mash them together as well as getting different effects from layer modes and opacity's that I wouldn't get traditionally!

 I struggled to draw hands for this so I ended up using some monoprints from my FMP which fit in really well. I feel like I can do a lot of experimental printing and collage and just build up a back catalogue of things that I could use in future work.