All Play

Play Print 1 with Dog - digital art painting - Dan Beck 2008

This is a very recent piece of digital art - playing around with a new template - hoping to introduce a new option for sharing art - more interested in the template size and corresponding original prints than the actual painting.

As a result, I have approached this work as the title suggests - from the point of play. Despite the play - and the landscape painted with abandon - it wreaked of a particular area I had been taking my dog, Bogart, to get some exercise.

Though he probably should have been scampering around the hillside - I ended up putting him in the corner pushing my brand or symbol around - kind of indicative of our relationship I guess - teaching him that I am in charge yet him pushing and resisting most of the way.

some sort of weird karma - reminds me of myself when I was adolescent… and sometimes still am

See Also

• Digital Art - ambiguities, distinctions, and open ended meaning of digital art
• Sharing Art - search result finds blog - nice image - traced from a photo - not at all like my work - but creativity needs to be encouraged
• Tour of Youth Arts Collective - art fosters problem solving and thinking outside the box - I have seen the yaksters work and I it points more towards the kind of world we need …