Adding color and texture – one thing leads to another
Window View – digital painting / art prints – Dan Beck 2006
In some ways I like the simplicity of yesterday’s start. At the small size like directly above – the even simpler digital painting seems to work better for me. However, when it is printed at 13 x 19″ or larger, it needs the extra detail to look like a finished art print.
Nevertheless, I tried to maintain the simplicity which I liked so much in the first place. I added color to make it more like wading in the fields, rather than wading in the water.
I added texture and additional color to make the fields themselves be of interest. In doing so, everything else – mountains and figures had to have comparable weight – meaning they required additional texture and color for the piece to hold together.
This is why it is so difficult to stop a piece at the right time – one thing leads to another and you have to add this which means adding that – and before you know it, the character of the piece has changed…
but at least you have enjoyed the process.
See Also
- Rainy Halloween Harvest
First – out the window painting – this one done live in 2003 - Postcards from Thailand -page 1
Fascinating how similar the rice workers look to strawberry pickers and how wading in the field compares to wading elephants - Strawberry Fields Forever? – Rethinking Schools – Volume 19 No. 3 – Spring 2005 – Rethinking Schools Online
The perspective on what it is like to be out there picking – and a good story of giving back
Tags: Art, color, fields, mountains, painting, perspective, prints, strawberry, texture
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