Forgotten Sketch Shows Its Colors

Sunset Sketch - digital painting / original prints - Dan Beck 2005

I had totally forgotten this painting - don’t remember creating it - don’t remember the evening it was inspired by - it had kind of slipped through the cracks.

This was a digital painting that had made it into the last round of pieces to go on the website end of 2005 - but didn’t get included. I went looking through all my original prints and came across this one and was quite taken with the way it looked so much like a tissue collage.

Perhaps a little too evenly balanced to be a really wonderful piece - it still has some magnificent qualities - the sun and clouds in particular and the texture in the vegetation on the horizon and the more detailed yet not exactly lettuce in the front.

I guess I do remember something - because it was romaine I was portraying but I would never have known that by just looking - it was a representation like most art - enough to evoke a feeling and a time but hopefully be its own original place to get lost inside.

See Also

• Experimental Field - notice how romaine lettuce was portrayed here - both more detailed and more abstract - it’s not easy being green
• Original Art - discussion of different meanings and understandings or what original art really is and isn’t
• Tissue Collage - a page filled with examples - no enlargements here but one can get enough of the idea of why this seems so reminiscent of the above work