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 Sheet Music Cover: Title across the upper half, scene below, publisher block at the foot
- Type
- Set in Sheet Music Cover's manner (Title in ornamental lettering, composer credits dropped to light type), and let Victorian Ornament's lettering (Ornamented serifs and small capitals) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Sheet Music Cover's material (Three or four flat lithographic colors over a yellowed paper ground); bring in exactly one thing from Victorian Ornament (Deep red, green, gold, cream; repeat hairlines in steps).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #761f2e, #294f3b, #d6aa55.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- 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.
- Victorian Ornament Never mix other cultures' patterns as anonymous ornament. Research origins; quote precisely.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Sheet Music Cover (Style, 1820s–1920s) and its accent from Victorian Ornament (Style, 1837–1901). Structural cues: Scenes of the song; Ornamental title lettering; Lithographic color; Publishers' stock frames. Accent cues, used sparingly: Dense borders; Symmetry; Botanical pattern; Chromolithography. Composition: Title across the upper half, scene below, publisher block at the foot. Type and lettering: Title in ornamental lettering, composer credits dropped to light type. Let one material quality come from the second style: Deep red, green, gold, cream; repeat hairlines in steps. Mood: Nostalgia, Intimacy, Exhilaration, Luxury. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #761f2e, #294f3b, #d6aa55. 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
- 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.
- Victorian Ornament 1837–1901 / Style / Ornament
Builds a thickly layered system of ornament from many revival styles and the riches of industrial printing.
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