glimpse and earlier artwork yield another take at beauty and toil

Experimental Field - digital painting - Dan Beck - 2005

I haven’t written about this piece before, but only its counterpart. I broke my own rules with these pieces and ended up creating two works and accompanying art prints from one start - and thus find myself liking one more than the other.

I know the piece was some what of an outgrowth of the success I had with the digital painting Field Play.

In this case the figure’s clothing has color and detail - while the face remains rather simple. The main detail of the glimpse I saw - was the stretched out posture and movement of a particular individual harvesting romaine.

The abstractness of the fields is tied up in the nature of viewing while passing and in an attempt to create the kind of world of the previously mentioned piece.

This was designed to fill the 13 x 19″ watercolor sheet with minimal margins and will enlarge up to a 20 x 30″ image.

See Also

• Experimental Field
  options for art prints
• Large Image
  Another artist’s watercolor of Romaine Harvest