black background creates floating effect of colored shapes

Experiment-on-Black - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck

This piece was done quite a while ago - end of 2000 from what I can tell. As the title suggests, it was an experiment.

Underneath all the shapes is the black and white shaded cone - pretty much taken from the computer’s stock gradients. The colored shapes just seem to float above the black and white surface and when over solid black they look like a chink of light coming through the background. 

The fact that they don’t really connect much is part of the coolness of the piece. It wasn’t something I really wanted to explore further - but I was also into more one of a kind things at that time - looking for new and unique explorations while I experimented with the medium.

Because of my new Blog guide by images I could see I had never written about this digital painting prior to today - so why not I thought.

See Also

• Experiment-on-Black
  availabilty of art prints for above digital painting
• Large format photography Forum: Making Objects Appear to Float on Black Background
  Hadn’t thought about this - but black background has been used in this way for years