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CD art before recording - digital art before purchasable prints

Red Eye Recordings - cover art - Dan Beck 2007

I like the phrase art before the cart - just like I enjoyed art cart rather than shopping cart.

I am hoping to record some of my music from the last year or so. I came up with the concept above for a CD because my eyes got infected and I felt well enough to play guitar and sing - and even felt quite inside the music.

I was also concerned about using my eyes too much - though obviously not so concerned that I didn’t do the art work first. So naturally - I have a cover without the recorded content. Well I have recorded one piece - to be shared another day.

The other aspect to this phrase “Art Before the Cart” is that there will always be new pieces of digital art on this site - visible but not set up for purchase - it is the way it is - despite my best intentions.

Expectations of impulsive got to have an art print of that digital painting having seen it once on the internet are not really mine - but please don’t hesitate to write if something strikes your fancy - just email or comment below.

Just thought it should be said…

See Also

Music at Outhouse Studios - listen to music, read about the process - and get a flavor for that aspect of my creativity and of course - 1danband

Art Before the Cart - in the interest of saving my eyes - I did a google search for this phrase (in quotes) - only been used once. At least I am in good company.

converting indecipherable language into art

Symbolic Language 1 - digital painting - Dan Beck 2007

Small, it looks like a madras material - I think I’ve had a few shirts like that over the years. If you look at it fuller sized if you didn’t already click on the image, you will see symbols underneath the colors.

I went searching in the browser cache to see if I could retrieve an article which got lost/destroyed. I was not able to find it, but I did open something in a plain text editor which revealed these really interesting sideways, upside down, mirror imaged - what to me are nonsensical but beautiful symbols.

I don’t know if it is decipherable - and I am not sure I care, but I couldn’t resist copying and pasting to make the backdrop for a few abstract pieces …

I have been sadly lacking on my abstract art work these days.

See Also

• Abstract Art Gallery - examples of some of the other abstract art work at Outhouse Studios
• Madras - examples of Madras materials for the uninitiated
• Madras Mountains - an earlier digital painting of similar theme - please enlarge image