Archive for November, 2006

Colorful Splash

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Irrigation Man is enveloped in water – almost unseen

Irrigation Man - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2006

Irrigation Mandigital painting / art prints – Dan Beck 2006

I have been obsessed with trying to get my website moved to a different web-host. So far it is a much bigger undertaking than I could have expected and nowhere near done… oh well.

This is the first painting I have done in well over a week. I had the idea of creating a piece that would be ideal printed in halves and pieced together – making one large diptych if you will.

The first one came out really nice, but it was not intended to be printed like that from the outset. This piece is designed to maximize two sheets of 13 x19″ watercolor paper and put them together for a total print size of 19 x 26″ – which is pretty sizable.

I wanted this figure enveloped in water – I have seen things similar to this – though not recently. Sometimes for what one wants to communicate, that may actually be better.

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Impression: Not Snapshot of Reality

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Art prints & fields of color more pleasing large as intended

Yellow Field Green Hills - digital painting / art prints - DB 2005

Yellow Field Green Hills – digital painting / art prints – DB 2005

Like most the pieces in the Impressionist Art Gallery, the digital paintings were intended to be printed large – yielding art prints at a minimum size of a 24 x 30" framed print.

Although I don’t see this as one of my all time best, I do find it remarkably pleasing – particularly since it also seems a bit imbalanced in some ways.

The funny thing is that there are certain perspectives where the mountains feel this ludicrously tall and the fields were indeed this yellow.

Nevertheless, the piece is about impression not a snapshot of reality.

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Blog a Song

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

so much to do – difficult to move

early logo - represents home on site

Finding it difficult to blog this week – my website has to be moved to a new host – yesterday – and it is a more complicated process than it should be – images and pages case sensitive where they weren’t and htm/html endings a necessity and more problems to discover. 

Even though it came from a different place I keep hearing this song:

I can’t stand still and I can’t move on
And it’s way too hot to be writing this song
I can’t stand still and I can’t move on
It’s a common theme, but maybe nothing’s wrong

Patience, Virtue, Assertiveness,
Listening, Asking, Believing in,
Connecting to what counts

We can’t stand still and we can’t move on
And it’s not like anything has even gone wrong
We can’t stand still and we can’t move on
There’s so much to do and it will take so long

You can’t stand still and you can’t move on
And you might not know why I write this song
You can’t stand still and you can’t move on
So it’s not all good, but then there’s nothing wrong

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