changing views

Nestling Grape Rows - digital painting / original prints - Dan Beck - 2005

As with many paintings, my feeling about this piece originally is not the same as it has come to be. Often one is either more ecstatic about the results or even more humdrum about the results.

It is a very clear to me the importance of audience and artistic climate. When one of my original prints is well received by other artists, other viewers - it is not difficult to change my view on the work.

When a piece is not well received; what was successful may remain - but it is more difficult to hang on to. In the digital painting above, I liked the 3 dimensionality in particular, the texture, and the way the composition itself tends to push the grapes and mountains together.

The subject matter has been tackled by me and will be again - but the strength in this particular interpretation has the uniqueness we tend to look for in original art.

See Also

• Impressionist Art Gallery - gallery the above digital painting is found in and a good glimpse of works from a glimpse
• Andorra & France - someone’s trip to France - had a really nice photo of grapes (as much in the mountains or more) than my rendition - and the rest is just a recording - I assume for friends and family - which I am neither - but what a wonderful trip they seemed to have had
• Photos - same kind of thing - snapshots of a trip from someone I don’t know - but the photo of grapes in the mountains near Exeter, CA and the two countryside photos of Lindsay are worth looking at - and maybe more just to get a sense of the area