after seven years observing, I have finally seen the air hoe

Air Hoe 3 - digital painting - Dan Beck 2007

There will be art prints available for the above piece - but I am in the process of rethinking how I want to offer these. So be patient or not, and I will figure it out.

Almost a month ago I featured a new digital painting. At the time I commented that I would explain the posture of the last figure at a later date. It was not consciously trying to recreate what I had seen, but when I sketched in the figure, I saw I had included a figure a lot like the above.

I will say - that I actually saw a field worker playing his hoe momentarily like a guitar. Since I didn’t hear any music, I assumed it was not plugged in and he was playing the air hoe.

For reasons I will not explain here, I used the same figure in three different digital paintings - proving once again - that I have no issue with breaking my own rules.

See Also

• Field of Hoes - first of the hoe paintings - perhaps I am working on a virtual hoe series
• Virtual Air Guitar Totally Rocks, Dude: Science Fiction in the News - not the hoe sound but how silly and amazing is this? - music from the modern mime
• LOOK CLOSER » Air Guitar Championships - I think I like it better with the hoe, but what do I know