picking the moment to share

Glowing Sky - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2005

I just finished a painting with a sunset - but am not ready to share it on the internet - haven’t even printed it for myself yet. But I had a quick opportunity to write and I thought of this digital painting.

I love the colors of this piece - the angles - the glow of the clouds and sky - the way the mountains almost float themselves - begging the question are the clouds moving or the mountains or is everything still?

This is an incredibly fragile moment as anyone and everyone who has ever seen a sunset can attest. Deciding the moment and look I wanted to capture that evening was probably as much of a challenge as painting.

I don’t paint from photos - nothing adamant here - just don’t want to - it is about capturing the memory - capturing the impression the particular moment leaves - and giving that impression back.

As always (and forgive me here), I hope I have not given the wrong impression.

See Also

• Glowing Sky - current purchasing options for original art prints of above digital painting
• Impressionist Art Gallery - see other images from Dan Beck and Outhouse Studios and information about impressionism
• Claude Monet’s Impression Sunrise - this was the first art related site I could find on Google - looking up simply “impression” but turns out to be kind of fun adjusting the brightness of the sun on Monet’s work