single row sighting inspires quick digital painting

Break Line Hoe - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2006

It has been weeks since my last digital painting. I was away on vacation and this was my first chance. I wasn’t planning on painting - I have many other things on my plate.

But I spied this line of workers - hoe in hand - making a b line to the edge of the field - and I assume a break. Although it might well have been they were just moving in unison to another field to hoe.

When I saw them this morning I just thought it looked awesome. I wasn’t sure if I could make it work as a painting and knew I didn’t have time to do anything detailed - so the above slight step up from a sketch is what I came up with to capture the scene.

See Also

• Figures Art Gallery
  most similar work currently on website
• Online Etch A Sketch
  Did not know this existed - works with arrow keys - can’t do angles like you sort of could with manual model - but cool nevertheless