how play can lead to further exploration and studies

My Series 6 - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2005

All of the “My Series” paintings are a particular size digital painting which I came up with to provide the thickness of line I wanted and also allow me to see the painting as a slide - fitting the monitor exactly.

So when I worked on this piece, I could look at it as it was coming along - filling up my monitor completely with no other distractions.

The series started out as play, but I stumbled upon something I found really interesting. Part of what I liked was the smoothness of the overlapping color gradients on top of texture. The other thing which struck me was the hint of being representational - but not enough to be considered anything more than abstract.

See Also

• My Series 6
  availability of art prints for My Series 6
• Abstract Art
  lengthy but interesting discussion of abstract and representational art
• Jackson Pollock in Action
  a lighter look at abstract, representation, and play