When Donna sees the picture of Vincent playing a penny whistle in his sketchbook, she is transported back to her childhood when her brother gave her one of these tin flutes. The exchange below is from the opening scene of The Bird that Sang in
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The Bass Player: artwork from the family saga, “The Bird that Sang in Color”
Posted by Grace Mattioli in The Art in "The Bird that Sang in Color" | 0 commentsSome of the pictures in Vincent’s sketchbook, like the one featured here, were uncolored and Donna wondered if her brother had eventually intended to color them in. When Donna sees this picture, she recalls the night she, Frank, and
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The Astronomer: artwork from the family saga, “The Bird that Sang in Color”
Posted by Grace Mattioli in The Art in "The Bird that Sang in Color" | 0 commentsThis is the third picture Donna sees in Vincent’s book of sketches. She remembers a time after Vincent began working at the bakery in town when he bought a telescope and invited her over to look through it while he guided her star gazing.
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The Mandolin Player: artwork that inspired the family saga, “The Bird that Sang in Color”
Posted by Grace Mattioli in The Art in "The Bird that Sang in Color" | 0 commentsThe second picture Donna finds in Vincent’s sketchbook is one of him as a child playing the mandolin. She observes that his stance with one foot in front of the other somehow reveals his unassuming, humble nature, and marvels at how he was
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The Boy: artwork that inspired the family saga, “The Bird that Sang in Color”
Posted by Grace Mattioli in The Art in "The Bird that Sang in Color" | 0 commentsThis is the first picture in the sketchbook that Donna discovers in The Bird that Sang in Color. Music is already a part of the picture as it shows a bunch of albums beside Vincent, but it also reveals another type of music–the music of
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