Looking at painting stages in a new light - as one piece
Horizons is one digital painting in different stages. For purposes of Day of the Dead - it is a metaphor for life and death. Each stage is a finished piece - it is complete in itself even though there might be another […]
skills, vocabulary, perception are not artistic achievement
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Rainy Halloween Harvest - digital painting / Enlarge -> Art Print Options”>art prints - 2003
There is a difference between vision and communication. There is a difference between seeing and perceiving. There is a difference between speaking and vocabulary. There is a difference between […]
grows on you; you enjoy being inside finding surprise
Houses on the Hillside - digital painting / art prints - DB 2005
Just like what makes a good piece of art, what makes a good art print is really about how it is received.
I would never say beauty is in the eye of the beholder - for […]
memory alters impression - emotion requires expression
Viewing Out - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2004
I remember this evening - I went out to see a small art show in a bakery in Sand City - there was said to be some "computer generated art" - it really was more akin to digital painting […]
current experiment in large art prints made by combining sheets of watercolor paper
Bold Glimpse - Digital Painting/ Art Prints - Dan Beck 2006
I wrote an article about this piece which I don’t think I can improve upon - it was poetic and captured the evening in words enhancing the visual front and center.
Today I bring […]
a comfortable pleasing piece
Valley Comfort - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2006
This is the last digital painting I created and it is also a particularly pleasing piece to me. Not just because I was using a mouse again - but also the subject matter make this a comfortable piece.
I like the cross […]
Taking care of oneself also requires taking stock
Another Lightness
Dune Moon
Irrigate 4
Being one who doesn’t believe in accidents I am looking at feeling sick today - like it must be serving me in some fashion. I probably need a break from blogging, from websites, from digital painting, from art prints, etc.
I observed one […]
celebrating the plowed earth
Field 2 Mount - digital painting and art prints - 2005
I actually have already written a good article about this piece. But as I was both looking at all the recently visible dirt and also my most recent painting - I was thinking about “Field 2 Mount”.
Here more than anywhere is a […]
back to comfort of mouse painting and familiar landscape
Valley Comfort - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2006
When I first started this piece and decided to save and title it (although unfinished), I called it “Mouse Play”. The last two digital paintings I did - I used a pen and tablet instead […]
done in a caricature kind of style
Salinas Valley 4 - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2004
Most of the work I do is of the Salinas Valley - the landscape here is infectious - and I don’t mean e coli - such things, though awful - are played up by the media. According […]
