June 21st, 2006 by admin
images of significance - digital painting references development
Treework - digital painting - Dan Beck circa 1999
Earlier I wrote that I try to strike the balance between create and created, artist and audience.
Earlier I had written a complete article about the significance of trees for me - pointing out how there were three in the art-chives where the above digital painting is housed on my site … about how trees were so significant because they were one of the first things I could draw which looked representative of what it was and also be interesting.
I also wrote about family trees and branching out and having established roots - how trees are such a fine metaphor… and even the Wizard of Oz - where trees talk and pitch - wonderful.
A tree was also the image for the CD cover of my previous album: About Time - showing the concept and passing of time in an image itself.
But that was earlier - and that entire article was lost - and that is also part of being creative - making the best of bad circumstances -
earlier I might have even agreed with that.
See Also
- Treework
availability of art prints for above digital painting
- Textured Tree
another tree - first with texture - please click “enlarge” to see adequately
- Tree Rings Record Annual Growth
Mostly things we all know - but some perhaps not - pretty amazing nevertheless
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November 20th, 2005 by admin
Views of art development and digital art painting
Stage 1 of Digital Painting
It was suggested to me that I give a demonstration of how a piece is created. This particular piece was painted with that intent. At various stages of its process, I saved the piece so the development and change could be seen readily.
This scene comes from a section of a descending road coming to the base of Toro Mountain. It is not particularly literal though it takes aspects of that scene and puts them together. The end result is intended to have a similar feeling.
Stage 1 is simply a sketch, I have used mostly overlapping gradient colors to gain the initital layout.
In the second stage, I have started to lay in more color and the mountains in back with the ascending hills are starting to take shape.
The third stage, which is all I will share for today, has the trees added in layered colors and the mountains have more texture and color - again giving them more shape.
More alterations, color, and additions will follow - but like myself creating it - you will have to wait to see how it unfolds.
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November 12th, 2005 by admin
Technique, Composition, Form, & Feeling
Boat-on-an-Ocean - 2000
SeaFogged - 2005
There are lots of ways one can develop as an artist. One of the most obvious is technique. It is incredibly apparent in the two pieces above that the technique in the second piece is much more developed. If you look at the enlarged versions(click title links above), it is even more obvious.
The first piece, though quite dynamic is not particularly subtle. The lines are big as well as the bold overlapping colors. I still think it is a wonderful piece in the way it makes you feel like the ocean is rocking, but there is no attempt at any sort of illusion to reality, nor did I understand the medium well enough at the time to be able to produce something like the second piece.
Now the second piece, Seafogged, is not as interesting a composition or as vivid, though it is much more sophisticated in its technique. I chose this as a comparison piece because it is also a painting of the sea and the difference is so startling.
This piece does capture the feeling of the ocean on that day and that sunset time. I was really happy with it on completion because I did exactly what I set out to do. I painted what I had seen at a particular time for a small amount of time - held it in my mind and rendered the feeling I had into the piece. It doesn’t always work like that.
So besides technique, I have touched on composition and color in my own artistic critique. There is also balance, the way one’s eye moves through a piece, how much of the piece one is captivated by, and of course the subjective most important aspect of artistic development, how the newer work makes you feel.
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