Cantantes

Top Right: Hermanas Aguila: "Farolito"

Middle: Toña la Negra: "Noche Criolla"

Left bottom: Elvira Ríos: "En Mi Soledad" & part of: "Verdad Amarga"

Oops I got part of my toe in the bottom picture. haha

I will explain these pieces as best as I can because this week I attempted to focus the pieces on songs of specific artists to form this triptych. As stated in the list above, Hermanas Aguila, Toña la Negra, and Elvira Ríos were my three artist choices. 


The emotion that each artist conveyed differed quite greatly to me, apparent from the colors I chose for each piece as well as brush strokes.

To me, Farolito by las Hermanas Aguila was the most straightforward to draw. The bright tone of the song evoked these dab marks recurring throughout the whole piece, but at the same time, the song was smooth, the voices of Hermanas Aguila sliding from one note to the next. As I painted, the picture reminded me of a landscape of flowers with pink clouds.
Looking at their background, Paz and Esperanza Aguila started off singing at family gatherings, gradually gaining fame and flowering into an undeniably talented duo, setting the style of duo boleros. I mainly looked at this sight for information since there were very little english sites explaining the life of hermanas aguilas.(http://rincondelaanoranza.blogspot.com/2010/03/hermanas-del-bolero-hermanitas-aguila.html). I couldn't figure out which one has the higher voice and likewise which one has the lower voice though. Google translate could not help me.
Regardless, the lower voice prompted me to add in the dark maroon colors that are scattered throughout the piece, while most of the time the voices are blended to form this overall pink piece.

When I heard "Noche Criolla" I immediately thought of an ocean in the night, waves sweeping back and forth, moonlight dimly hitting some waves and not others. That is where the inspiration for the bottom right corner comes from. From here, the song took me to sweeping colors, usually dark, but sometimes ending in an unexpected major chord, which prompted me to use the lighter colors. However, the song mostly came from a dark smoldering tone. It's frustrating because some of these older singers have very little written about them on the internet. As someone new to this type of music, I can understand most of what I know about them solely on their music. Here was a little bit of information that I found on wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To%C3%B1a_la_Negra)

The last piece is from Elvira Ríos singing "En Mi Soledad" & part of: "Verdad Amarga". I used two songs for her because personally, I had trouble understanding a tone for her. Her manner in the videos is one of confidence and possibly slightly haughty, but her tone is almost the opposite from what I heard. It has a smooth, quiet mood that dips and stays low with a dark tone that envelops her style. It reminds me almost of honey that can't decided which way to drip. Therefore, my last piece was in my opinion the least successful but works to convey my confusion of her style.