Fluid piece from past contrasts with overworked recent work
Mountain Sails – digital painting – Dan Beck circa 1998
Originally I was planning on sharing a recent digital painting – but I surprised myself by not being able to undo a mistake. I write all the time about mistakes being mistakes only in relation to what follows – meaning – they can be ok and even a blessing if you keep working.
Well I did, but the color in the piece had gotten too muddy … and even though I worked it to a point that I liked it – when printed it just didn’t sing.
But above is a piece I did many years ago. It was quite fluid – not overworked – and as far as I am concerned quite pleasing.
My understanding of the medium was quite limited at the time, but I had learned how to overlap translucent color gradients and that was huge.
Anyway – I am offering the above piece as an example of what works … and chalking up my latest piece to not everything can be so good.
See Also
- Mountain Sails
Full Enlargement of Above Piece - The religion of Jackson Pollock, painter
Capturing the concept of fluid painting beyond what I am describing
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