playing with medium, color, and texture

My Series 7 - digital painting - 2005 - Dan Beck

The series started out as play and as a series may never really gotten off the ground, but the works are still wonderful examples of how play can lead to something interesting and worthwhile.

The first digital painting in the series really felt like I had captured something new. I liked the way it was slightly representational. As with the above image the arrangement of color suggests sky and land.

There is also something about the way the paint sits on top of the texture - it is smooth and luxurious without texture of its own.

I did only a dozen or so of these abstract digital paintings, but I try to have a little of that free spirited play in all my works. I believe it comes through and is felt in the finished art prints.

Though art is often a serious challenge, it should also be fun - but that is what they say about most things.

See Also

• My Series 7
  options for art prints
• What is representational art?
  Detailed explanation of what might be obvious
• Glossary of Printmaking Terms
  Art terms in general - simple and to the point resource