working differently to keep things fresh
No Particular View – digital painting – Dan Beck 2006
When I started painting this morning I didn’t have any particular scene in mind – no scene burning inside me and no real concept. But as quickly as the first mark I found myself taking things differently. This is not an uncommon practice for me -
in fact, it is my practice in both senses of the word.
It is important to keep things fresh – for me, it is often something simple. In this case I started with single lines to define the piece. I used a combination of freehand color gradient drawing, lines, and fill-in’s to make the fields and mountains what they are.
It is not a complete departure from how I normally work or a complete departure from my other work. What I was able to do without a specific scene in mind, was accomplish the feeling of hills, sloped fields, and mountains that is the Salinas Valley.
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See Also
- Irrigate 1
another landscape of similar origin – one which has passed the test of time - Fast and Beautiful: The A-life Undeadening of Painting via the Digital
singing the praises of the digital medium – in practice I concur - practice
a philosophic discussion of art and practice
Tags: Art, color, digital medium, fields, hills, mountains, painting, prints, Salinas Valley
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