Changing the way we do things can keep life fresh
My Series 1- Gallery Page - Digital Painting - 2005
As with the previous "On Being Creative" points: all ten can be found in the Free Download section of OuthouseStudios.net.
Do things in new ways - be it for efficiency or for change of pace, it will help […]
Improvising Flipped Out Printing Options
Flipped Out Jazz - Gallery Page - Digital Painting 2005
I wrote about this piece once before closer to when I created it. As I am glancing back at the article, it is quite remarkable that I was experimenting with a piece about Jazz the way a musician playing jazz would experiment […]
Digital Painting and Music: Interview
Music at Outhouse Studios
Thought it was about time I posted the first podcast produced for Outhouse Studios. The first audio file includes original music and an interview.
Dale Bayless asked various questions about the origins of outhouse studios and the inspiration for my art and music.
There are numerous areas […]
Rolling Hills and Textured Irrigation lead to Versatile Art Print
Irrigate 1 - Digital Painting & Art Print - 2005 - Dan Beck
The piece above is one of the first pieces I felt like I really hooked - right after I had finished. Not only pleasing right off, it is also quite representative of the […]
Be childlike and relish the process of creating
Fifth-focus Experiment-on-Black Quick-draw
Approach your work like a child.
As trite and overworked as the expression is, […]
Absence of color yields original work; Process yields original art prints
Black & White Days - enlarge - Digital Painting - 2006
It has been raining a lot here. It feels like somewhere else. But in the presence of so much rain, it is often quite noticeable how absent the color is.
I remember associations with the […]
Mistakes can be blessings depending on what comes after
First Stage 3rd(uncertain)Stage Finished Piece
Below is the third point or tip of ten which can be downloaded in full by following the Free Download links at the Outhouse Studios website.
Don’t worry about mistakes - you don’t have to keep what you create and you might well […]
Enjoyment and Wanting to Live With Speaks
Big Valley 1 - Digital Painting 2005 - Gallery Page
The best reason to buy a piece of art is because you really enjoy looking at it. It makes you feel good when you are around it. It makes you wander inside it. It says something to you that you […]
Less choice can yield more creative results
Black & White Vision - Digital Painting - example of creating with less
Below is the second tip from an article available in full at Outhouses Studios through Free Downloads
Make do with what you have -
it is a very creative process - “necessity is the mother of invention”. […]
Perspective, peripheral vision and painting combine for archival art prints
Longfield - Digital Painting & Art Print - 2005
The perspective in this piece is not particularly tricky, but it works well. Your eye can’t help but move back towards the right corner while taking in the mountains almost as though they were in your peripheral […]
