sunset portrayal reminiscent of tissue paper collage and magical light

Tractor Sunset - digital painting /art prints - Dan Beck 2003

This is a really magical piece.  Like all my digital paintings, it is even more so viewed as an archival art print.  What I am struck by today is how much like a tissue collage this painting looks.

The way I represented the streaming light of sunset, I still find to be quite novel. It was the first time I ever did it in that fashion and frankly haven’t ever done it as successfully since.

The high tension wire towers kind of dance and disappear in the evening fog - and a lone tractor and driver work on - either basking in the beauty that is almost exclusively theirs - or perhaps too caught up in plowing (which I doubt) to notice.

The magic is in the evening itself - in the scenario - and in the way it is captured without really looking much like what was - but for perhaps what was essential.

See Also

• Tractor Sunset
  availability of art prints for Tractor Sunset
• Eve Slinker Collage/Mixed Media
  Couple of other examples of tissue paper collage and how Tractor Sunset looks similar