Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Circus Poster: Slogans top and bottom, scenes of the acts packed solid between
- Type
- Set in Circus Poster's manner (Wood type headlines changing face line by line, set tight without spacing), and let Sheet Music Cover's lettering (Title in ornamental lettering, composer credits dropped to light type) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Circus Poster's material (Saturated lithographic color led by red and yellow, sized for repeated posting); bring in exactly one thing from Sheet Music Cover (Three or four flat lithographic colors over a yellowed paper ground).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Circus Poster Chasing density without building a hierarchy buries the date and place, and the sheet becomes something people look at and then forget.
- Sheet Music Cover Lining up ornamental faces without painting the scene of the song leaves a cover holding the signs of a period and none of its subject.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Circus Poster (Style, 1870s–1930s) and its accent from Sheet Music Cover (Style, 1820s–1920s). Structural cues: Saturated chromolithography; Exaggerated animals and acrobats; Superlative slogans; Dense composition. Accent cues, used sparingly: Scenes of the song; Ornamental title lettering; Lithographic color; Publishers' stock frames. Composition: Slogans top and bottom, scenes of the acts packed solid between. Type and lettering: Wood type headlines changing face line by line, set tight without spacing. Let one material quality come from the second style: Three or four flat lithographic colors over a yellowed paper ground. Mood: Exhilaration, Play, Nostalgia, Intimacy. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Circus Poster 1870s–1930s / Style / Advertising Posters
Show bills that mustered chromolithography and wood type to announce the spectacle in overloaded scenes and the largest words available. Pasted up until they occupied whole walls, they were advertising that turned the city into a theater.
- Sheet Music Cover 1820s–1920s / Style / Printed Ephemera
Lithographed covers kept alive by the piano in the parlor. Illustration of the song's scene combined with ornamental lettering into a single picture, and before the record sleeve existed this was how music was shown.
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