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successful does not mean wanting to live with

Enlarge – Cloud Cover – Digital Painting 2006- Dan Beck

I keep trying to look at the positives in having to move my website. On the blog alone, there is a year’s worth of links to my site – including images – which don’t usually link – because every image and page is case specific with my new web-host’s server.

So one of the bright sides is getting to revisit pieces when I get the link working. The above digital painting is such a piece.

Interesting when I wrote about this piece before, I commented on how non-real so much of it was even though it captured the feeling of the scene.

Today I think how real it is – how successful it was – and yet still probably not a piece that too many would want to live with … I mean who really wants to have a rainy day on their wall – unless perhaps one lives in the arid desert.

For any desert folks looking for art prints of above digital painting, please email: specialorders@outhousestudios.net.

See Also

• Impressionist Art Gallery
  Most similar work on website can be found here
• Desert Diary, 2 Dec 2002–Winter Precipitation
  Rain on the Desert
• Rain on the Navajo Desert
  thought this was pretty cool – nothing like searching by writing

skills, vocabulary, perception are not artistic achievement

painting from life as in the above.

I am proud of the skills I have developed but it gives me every bit as much pleasure to capture the feeling of a scene with even less at my disposal.

It was a dreary gray and rainy Halloween morning and they were harvesting romaine right outside my window.

See Also

• Photo Gallery – Hired Hands
  Photo 1 and 7 are romaine harvest – other shots speak to the need for someone to do this work – hmmm? who will?
• Rainy Halloween Harvest
  options for buying art prints from above digital painting
• Robert Gumpert
  Field Work Photographs and some good information – worth checking out for sure

Taking care of oneself also requires taking stock

Another Lightness

Dune Moon

Irrigate 4

Being one who doesn’t believe in accidents I am looking at feeling sick today – like it must be serving me in some fashion. I probably need a break from blogging, from websites, from digital painting, from art prints, etc.

I observed one day in the last couple weeks that I had some shoulder pain – from over mousing I think which though not all that bad was like a pebble in my shoe.

It was so annoying I couldn’t prioritize or solve problems the way I normally do. Well a cold – that of course is even more magnified – one is forced to take things slow – forced to look at life with some distance – and forced to put one’s health and comfort and getting well above getting things done.

Having said that – I think of how many times in my life I worked when I probably shouldn’t have – today I am not sure how I did it.

See Also

• Impressionist Art Gallery
  digital paintings and art prints from all three thumbnails above are found in this gallery
• Listening to Your Heart Speak
  article about a specific illness and a tad religious for me – but the point the illness serves is well made
• Barren Mare: Pebble in my shoe
  I liked the poem at top – not sure how pertinent the rest is?