Art is a Destination
capturing energy - creating something else
Orange Sky Purple Clouds - digital painting - Dan Beck 2005
The sky was on fire the night this impression came from. I had never seen a sky quite like it. The horizon was orange - glowing and fireworks for clouds hovering over the dimming sky.
And I didn’t even come close to capturing it. But I did succeed at capturing the energy I felt from such an incredible post-sunset array of colors.
In creating this abstract art, I remember building color upon color upon texture upon texture to try to emulate the show that the clouds of the evening produced.
I am not sure I understand what I am looking at still - it almost looks like a dust devil in the desert.
What is incredibly clear by this digital painting, and more-so from its art prints, is that art is not necessarily about something else even when it tries to be - it is itself both a place and destination.
See Also
- Orange Sky Purple Clouds
Availability of art prints for above digital painting - Dust Devils
information and photos - Cloudscapes
Post sunset and incredible cloud photos
