creating without concern - when results do not matter

Second-work - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 1998

The above digital painting was the second piece I ever did. Actually, it was done using the drawing program rather than the painting program which I use these days.

What I love about this piece is that it is so innocent. I had no idea what the program could do or not do - and had absolutely nothing to lose in doing the work.

It was just fun. I worked abstractly because it was all about playing at that point. I had next to no control over the mouse at that time - in fact, I wondered how I would ever learn to do anything except that kind of free form fun.

I didn’t even own a printer at that time and was unable to email my images. There is something very powerful about creating without concern about the results.

See Also

• Second-work
  Availability of art prints for digital painting - Second-work
• Appleworks Drawing
  more extensive info about appleworks drawing - though above piece was done in Clarisworks