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closeness to finished art - spin of abstract

finger paint 1 - Dan Beck - digital painting / digital art - 2007

Things happen sometimes all at the same time. Discussion of the distance between artist and finished product - how digital feels different than the closeness of paint. I don’t know if this is true - but it is something an artist friend and I have been discussing in relation to different work I have done.

Suddenly - a good wrench is thrown in - a laptop gift - a trade-show prize that was generously given to me by the woman of my dreams. Damn - I sound like I am blogging.

So with the laptop comes art - no mouse - just fingers - finger painting - how fun is that? Plein air to come. So my first adventure as an original print looks better sideways.

At least it seems that way at the time. I am a firm believer in the emotion of the process of creating art coming through in to the finished painting.

Digital art is not nearly as physical as sculpture for instance, but it is not without emotion. Brushes come in different lengths - an artist steps in and steps back - just like a viewer might.

And paintings should work from all directions - so they say.

See Also

• Abstract Art Gallery - examples of other abstract work at Outhouse Studios
• Can Computers Be Creative?- sometimes a related search leads to the crux of the digital doubt - not how close to the finished product - but who is really doing it

communicating the art itself

Field Hand - digital painting - art prints - Dan Beck 2006

Over the weekend - someone asked about Marc Chagall and I thought of this piece, but could not remember what it really looked like.

It is always interesting how memory and current perception vary. I think I like this more than I did originally. The pun is fun - but the way it is painted including the rather primitive face works today. I feel like the field might blow away - there is this dreamlike quality and world of its own which is the essence of art in many ways.

I love doing abstract work - love not having to follow any sort of guidelines but the piece itself. But I also like to engage people in a subject or a vision which I feel is worth sharing.

The field worker looking at the dirt is both what we imagine and what really happens - in my case, I got to see it - and felt like it was worth sharing - but in this way unique to me - not so deep really.

See Also

• Chagall - hadn’t seen the spelling “Shagal”, but there is something which reminds me of the pictured work which I see in the above - synopsis is also pretty good.
• Digital Art - multiple meanings - and art’s larger significance
• Field Hand - current options for original prints of above digital painting

symbols underneath and choosing one’s ending

Symbolic Language 2 - digital painting - Dan Beck 2007

So this piece like its predecessor is an abstract work built upon some mystical symbols found by opening a computer cache in a program that didn’t deciper it correctly - at least I think.

But I really liked the symbols and I copied and pasted them into a painting document - with having some fun in mind. Above is where this particular piece was first finished - I had an afterthought to add some texture - which I did - something one couldn’t do with oil painting for instance.

It almost feels unfair to prefer the first finished version above - if it were another medium I would have had no choice. But different rules apply to digital painting and its art prints - and though I think it incredibly important to maintain some limits - this is not one I’ve agreed to.

See Also

• Jazz 3 - kind of reminds me of this digital painting though I arrived at it quite differently
• DaniDraws.com » The Ten Commandments of Digital Painting - I found this pretty amusing - needless to say I don’t agree with it all - resolution in the program I work is only 72 dpi - I have had no difficulty printing large - but had many objections from people with similar understanding. And tablets are more difficult for me since I started using a mouse - though normal drawing is still more natural.
• Amateur Illustrator : Illustration Community - I wasn’t sure at first about this article - but I did find the progression of how this artist works rather interesting - perhaps you will too