Ennio Morricone, art, drawings, music – and love

Italian movies have ment a lot to me as both a young man and later. Dont get me wrong I love movies from America, England, France, Spain, Germany – and occasionally Sweden. I love listening to music from great movies and when I make drawings and paintings.

Ennio Morricone is one of my favorite Italian and international movie music composers, not surprisingly maybe, but how can I not love “Metti una sera a cena” by Ennio Morricone. I find myself in love, in strong emotional state, happy and uplifted. Its something very special with music written by Ennio Morricone and the Italian touch. When Mia and I met up with our friend Melinna in Athens, Greece and sat at the greek anciant outdoor theatre on the slopes of the acropolis and listened to the Roman Sinfonietta and choir with said Ennio Morricone conducting his own music. With a clear blue sky and the white houses in athens and the mediterrainian ocean infront of us. It is somewhat unreal sometimes. And yet very real. I will never forget when I sat there listening at the concert and I turned my head and looked at Mia. The love just hit me as it have ever since the very first day I saw Mia and her eyes.

Currently working with the Graphic Novel I am drawing for the project I am doing with my friend and writer of the novel Steven Savile. As our hero steps into places like bars and parks and streets of Europe, the music helps me relief myself from the artistic agony we all can feel when the pen and hand is not working like we expect it to do. Or when it does and the music adds just that joyful and exhilarating state of mind of being somewhere else, inside the story itself. To become part of the story. Being there oneself just like our hero. To hug and help him through and forward. And our hero in the story needs all the help and healing he can get.

Thank you Morricone!

Stefan Lindblad
Illustrator, cover artis and artist
www.canvas.nu
www.stefanlindblad.com