Found this old sketch two days ago when I was cleaning up my cluttered area in the study room. It was an old idea inspired by an mtv during a KTV trip quite a few years ago. The image of a lady lying on a grand piano caught my attention. Tried to draw that down, but it was just that, a lady on a piano. It didn't mean much and I decided to shelf it away. Sometime later, the familiar melody of Beethoven's Fur Elise found a way into my head again. I used to listen to Xiu practising that piece for her grade 3 (I think?) exam. Then came the urge to find out what the music was about, since the word 'Elise' strikes as a name instead of some fancy foreign language like 'Für'.
An internet search in 2009 led me to a couple of forum posts about speculations of it. (Lazy to find the forum again, but this would suffice as an introduction: http://www.forelise.com/about) Sounds like some secret love story or something; there was even one speculating 'Elise' as Beethoven's sister named Elizabeth (or something like that)... who died before he was born? Anyways, it seems like a mystery that just died with the composer, maybe a secret that will just sleep in history... But yea, the melody lives on; with young kids hating it everyday cos of the examinations.
Despite having an idea for this, I quite hesitated with painting the picture as my mental image of it was still quite vague. Wanted to portray a wooden flooring but when picturing the colors, it just feel too uniform (The initial coloring idea was all yellow and brown, kind of bathed in sunset light). Then came the idea of a watery ground, with some roses instead of just papers on it. From then, the yellows were substituted by blues. It was a slow process for this painting, but hey, kind of liked the way it turned out. Dug out the 'Für Elise' score for the details and realised it was just a couple of pages long. -_- Heck, no one's gonna care about such accuracies...
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