Not Out of the (Piney) Woods Yet: Day 22 #31DC2014: A Song

Day 22 #31DC2014: A Song

Prepare to be Rushified!!!!!

This day is starts off the segment i was most excited about for this whole challenge!! I had a few ideas for this one: Chainsaw by The Band Perry, Chandelier by Sia, and others..but my dad's birthday was around the same time as this challenge, so I decided to make this a tribute to him. His favorite band is a band called RUSH. Best thing out of Canada!! I have literally listened to them my whole life. Their music will be forever ingrained in my mind :) I remember listening to a cassette of Test for Echo on the way to the Children's Museum all the time. Sigh...good ol' days... So, anyway, I decided to do a mani based on one of my favorite songs by them - 2112. It's about a dystopian government who controls every thing that their citizens do; and a man who discovers a forbidden guitar and dreams that his music can change the universe :) The album artwork represents a large red star that is supposed to be the symbol of the government, the Solar Federation. It also has a man, a naked one at that, with his hands up shielding himself from the aforementioned red star. This symbol is what us RUSH fans like to call the man against the masses. Unfortunately, I'm not a good enough artist to depict said naked man, so I figured I would just add the star. Everything is entirely freehand with nail polish and acrylic paint. I am absolutely thrilled with how these came out. My dad liked them too. I even surprised myself with how good that star came out.