experimentation with unfamiliar leads to work slightly reminiscent of Dali and aberrant to own body of work

Start-lings - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck circa 1999

This piece will in someways always remain an aberration in my body of work. It was an early digital painting and was quite experimental.  The style I landed upon was in part because of my limited understanding of the program.

I chose stock color gradients and patterns to paint with - and an opaque color setting which is also the default. What I landed on was fun though - I am particularly partial to the multicolored artichoke looking thing and the floating shapes throughout.

Although not in anyway intended to be surreal, I have always found this somewhat reminiscent of Salvador Dali. I am going to hunt down some examples - see what you think.  It is obvious I am not copying him anyway.

See Also

• Start-lings
  availavility of art prints for above digital painting
• VirtualDali.com
  Large library of works by Salivador Dali
• Gala - Salvador Dali Foundation
  Collection of 50 works