October 17th, 2006 by admin
Technique, Language are vehicles - Intent is from Within
Fifth-Focus - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 1998
This is the fifth digital painting I created on the computer. I couldn’t control the mouse very well. I couldn’t control the opacity of the color or the palette for that matter.
Whatever I could grab that was already in the computer program - that is what I used.
It is both remarkable how much I have learned since then and also in some ways how little it matters.
When I finished this piece, I thought it was quite cool - I would have never dreamed of anything like that with conventional painting. But with this program this vibrant abstract somewhat three dimensional piece came to life.
No matter how big your vocabulary, you still have to say something with it.
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May 1st, 2006 by admin
Musical conversations are portrayed visually
All That Jazz - digital painting - 2006 - Dan Beck
I love music - if you’ve been on my site, you might have noticed, I write music and play a number of instruments.
There are many similarities in the creative processes for music and for art. They are there even when one is not taking on such an obvious reference to the other - as in the above.
When I created the above piece, I put on some jazz and referenced instruments I was hearing and the kind of interplay that the instruments might have. I could probably make it out to be more thoughtful than it was - but in truth I didn’t think that much.
Having said that, I am well aware of my own education in jazz and music. Improvisational music is a conversation - not an idea I invented - but it is. The vocabulary changes with musician and background - but it is about listening, conversing and offers one’s take or perspective.
As a brand new piece - All That Jazz has not yet been set up with a way to purchase the original art prints - please send inquiries to specialorders@outhousestudios.net .
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March 16th, 2006 by admin
Painting, Translated World, Artistic Vocabulary
Larger View of Enchanted Sunset - Digital Painting - 2006
The inspiration for this piece came from reality - a sunset with this tent-like window showing some of the sun…and a sky that was multi-colored and magical.
The section of world I chose had this swirling quality. The foreground is the plastic covered strawberry fields which are in person both ugly and beautiful with their reflection.
Painting of any sort is about representing another world - be it the real world or imaginary or the world of the painting itself.
This piece has a flow about it which I like very much - the hilly nature of the fields comes through strongly. And the colored excitement of the evening is also very well translated.
Translated - a good choice of words - indeed the expression of the medium is a language unto itself and the degree to which one can use the medium is one’s vocabulary.
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