berrying the theme of harvest and bent backs
Pick Aside - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2006
This is the last digital painting I created - one of many with the strawberry picking theme. I am beginning to feel like I am berrying the theme into the ground.
On the other hand, I see […]
experimentation with unfamiliar leads to work slightly reminiscent of Dali and aberrant to own body of work
Start-lings - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck circa 1999
This piece will in someways always remain an aberration in my body of work. It was an early digital painting and was quite experimental. The style I landed upon was […]
series develops from the cusp of representation and abstraction
My Series 3 - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2005
Yep - that’s a sun - there is no mistaking it. Even though the sun doesn’t really look like that - we know that is a sun. In fact, it is a rather fun interpretation […]
flag qualities and color over texture
My Series 7 - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2005
What works in this digital painting are the colors - there is a creaminess to the blue of imagined sky or water because of the different tones and overlaps. The green is pleasing and underlined by a light […]
new work brings up the power of the actual art prints
Pick Aside - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2006
As I am typing, this digital painting is working its way out of the printer in the form of a full to an eighth of an inch of the edge, art print - printed […]
writing about digital painting again and its very existence don’t follow the rules
Valley Work - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2005
Just like the creative process itself, there are no rules when it comes to writing about a piece again.
The digital painting itself was about no rules. The hills and the dirt were […]
Vantage point and figure in this digital painting
Checkerboard Valley - digital painting / art prints - 2005
When I first completed this digital painting, I was really pleased with how I had captured what I had seen. There is a small section looking down the valley which is near my house.
From that vantage point, one […]
positives of simple water and complex interpretation of sand
Monterey Bayish - digital painting /art prints - Dan Beck 2003
In some ways I find this piece a tad choppy - a tad symmetrical - but then again it is also a piece with a wonderfully simple take on the water and complex take on the sand. […]
not waiting - just paint or just observe
Just Painting
Just Looking
I was thinking about this topic this morning. I was feeling like starting a new digital painting, but with no idea what I might want to paint.
When one is at a loss for ideas - what does one do? For writers they often say […]
Just finished digital painting brings up what is also true - attention to little details
Out Field - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2006
Sometimes creating is painstaking or picky-une. I found myself trying to complete the above piece today - and making ever so slight changes but nevertheless seemingly critical ones.
Little things seem […]
