capturing the blues and browns - the hurdles of painting after a break
Winter Colors - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2006
This is my first painting in quite some time - a few weeks anyway. It is fascinating how the urge to create works.
On the one hand, one feels a kind of […]
maintaining feeling of dramatic sky
Enlarge DeSkies - Digital Painting / Art Prints - 2006
I am feeling a little hidden - winter hibernation perhaps - working too hard on what seems a futile website reconstruction - and thought - this piece with a pun on disguise kind of fits the bill.
It also looks a bit like […]
the color of rain
Hill Mountain Fog - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2005
Gray - drizzly - overcast day here in Salinas. The clouds have been sensational - the fog looking like a beard around the mountains.
But since I haven’t been painting for the last week or so, I have to sit […]
creative process, making things one own
New notifications image
Well … this is not an example of fine art - rather a quick piece of play to replace a stock image for the Outhouse Studios shopping cart.
I am sure whoever created them meant well - they aren’t all bad - in fact, I left a couple a […]
availability for purchase timeline will soon be current
Works from Art Prints starting at $95
From the digital paintings done between 2004 and the end of 2005 - these are definately some of my favorites.
The work done in the last year is visible throughout the blogsite - articles and enlargements can be found by digital image. […]
Creativity, Problem Solving, and Planting the Creative Seed
digital play - trying to portray "What’s new?"
I read an article today about prisoners who in their need for creativity and having no art supplies used coffee, fruit, chocolate etc to impart color - in some cases using their own hair to create a brush.
I have always felt that […]
revisiting texture and feeling of abstract rendition of hills
The Hills You Say - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck
I came across this piece today while making it available again for purchase - I suppose a strange benefit of having to redo the entire shopping cart and database of close to a thousand items. […]
implementing one’s style - being open to what’s not
Quick digital image - for Forgotten Password
Being creative is both about being controlling and being accepting. It is an interesting mix. For there are many times when accepting the seemingly accidental is the best move.
The creative person by necessity makes his mark on the world by communicating his […]
