pattern of people and field - the stamp of repetition

Bent Over Crowd - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2006

This digital painting feels different to me - I am not totally sure why - it is a pretty common theme now.

I see the workers in the fields every day - bent over swimming between the strawberry rows. I keep doing what I can to portray what I see and each time I approach it slightly differently.

This reminds me of a stamp somehow - the pattern of people and field - the repetition of similar body shapes - the coupled pickers - the same colored hats and scarves - each picker anonymous - each picker a cog, a clone - each one seemingly interchangeable - and yet the whole scene peaceful and pastoral.

Colorful art prints of this digital painting can be purchased only by emailing: specialorders@outhousestudios.net.

See Also

• Base of the Mountain
  earlier work - also strawberry pickers - also portrait orientation - different feeling
• Photoshop Clone Stamp Tool
  In searching for related repetitive figures / clones found this - did a little copying and pasting - though not in photoshop. Since I mentioned stamps too - it seemed even more pertinent
• Art. Lebedev Studio Posters
  There is an image called “New Clones” half way down - but found these images kind of interesting - also the different resolution links