Archive for June 5th, 2006

representation and sharing an impression

Nestling Grape Rows - digital painting - Dan Beck - 2005
How we create new art and how we view existing work is an interesting thing. When I first finished this, I was proud of how dramatic it felt. There is incredible strength in both the curving of the grape rows and […]

Quilted landscape and aerial spraying yield painting on the cusp between beauty and ugly

Quilted Spray - art prints/digital painting - Dan Beck - 2005
Late summer, early fall of last year, I played around with this concept. Nothing original in the idea of the aerial landscape looking like a quilt. But adding texture to the helicopter as […]