limits, language, and symbolism

Symbolic Language 7 - digital painting - Dan Beck 2007

I thought this was pretty cool when I just finished - interesting, layer upon layer. I tried coloring only by tinting sections - the most subtle way of coloring I have at my disposal.

At the end, I couldn’t take it any more and changed my own rules adding some touches of pure color. But with all that I find the digital painting a bit too subtle and drab - but like the old joke - good though.

It was intended as an exercise, intended to be fun, intended to be unpressured learning - and it was.

I could probably do things to make it brighter - improve upon what is - but successes come in different forms - and the limits and language are intended to be symbolic of that as well.

See Also

• Abstract Art Gallery - some of the other abstract art work at Outhouse Studios
• Moose Turd Pie - my father told this joke a little differently - but it the same story - though Utah Phillips does really personalize it.
• Pure Color - I looked up pure color for the heck of it - there really is no such thing - color is relative - but good information here plus nice images.