remaining original - referencing original

Mountain Sails Again - digital painting / original prints - Dan Beck 2004

Pulled this piece up today - again following the concept of even how all original art comes from somewhere else. Way prior to this piece, I did a very fluid mostly abstract painting which conjured up this lake, sea, mountain, and sail look - entitled Mountain Sails.

That original digital painting seemed quite unique to me and was the first painting I ever printed on a larger scale. Like life, we move on to new challenges and develop new ways of doing things - sometimes we long for the innocence of yesterday.

There is nothing original about trying to capture the feeling of a previous work - and yet it is original - the approach is different because it has the advantage of having seen what has come before.

Experience is built upon - the above piece though a bit stylized still works but doesn’t have that quality of having found a new place.

See Also

• Mountain Sails - original digital painting - perhaps more original since it came first
• Innocence Art Quotations - The Painter’s Keys Resource of Art Quotations - quotes are always fun and do provide some additional background and understanding