Technique, Language are vehicles - Intent is from Within

Fifth-Focus - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 1998

This is the fifth digital painting I created on the computer. I couldn’t control the mouse very well. I couldn’t control the opacity of the color or the palette for that matter.

Whatever I could grab that was already in the computer program - that is what I used.

It is both remarkable how much I have learned since then and also in some ways how little it matters.

When I finished this piece, I thought it was quite cool - I would have never dreamed of anything like that with conventional painting. But with this program this vibrant abstract somewhat three dimensional piece came to life.

No matter how big your vocabulary, you still have to say something with it.

See Also

• Color Palette Generator
  gives web colors for image with addresses you enter - put in above image - kind of cool really
• Pedram’s stream of consciousness: Vocabulary lesson
  Knowing big words and using them are different things - artistic technical skill is not sufficient or always necessary is my parallel point
• Fifth-Focus
  options for purchasing art prints of above digital painting - anyone need a fifth?