capturing the feeling of a fogged in day through abstract references

Hill Mountains - digital painting -> art prints - Dan Beck - 2003

I remember when I did this piece, I was quite pleased with the results. I set out to do nothing, but found myself painting the characteristic mountain and hill shapes anyway.

The title comes from the fact that the mountains are small here and sometimes they look like extremely large hills. It doesn’t matter where one draws the line really.

But the above piece is kind of whimsical. It doesn’t really settle in on anything - but it does seem to capture the line between mountain and hill and probably between mountain and sea.

The piece was supposed to abstractly represent the terrain around here: hills, mountains, ocean, and sky without depicting any particular scene.

I do think it feels like a fogged in day on the Central Coast, but different enough to be worth getting lost in.

See Also

• Hill Mountains
  Options for Art Prints for above piece
• [ pixelmap ] stock and fine art photography of California’s Central Coast
  some nice photos of Central Coast - I have not seen before
• Whimsical
  Imagination of middle school kids - 2001 Eastchester, NY