June 17th, 2007 by Dan Beck
Forgotten Sketch Shows Its Colors
Sunset Sketch - digital painting / original prints - Dan Beck 2005
I had totally forgotten this painting - don’t remember creating it - don’t remember the evening it was inspired by - it had kind of slipped through the cracks.
This was a digital painting that had made it into the last round of pieces to go on the website end of 2005 - but didn’t get included. I went looking through all my original prints and came across this one and was quite taken with the way it looked so much like a tissue collage.
Perhaps a little too evenly balanced to be a really wonderful piece - it still has some magnificent qualities - the sun and clouds in particular and the texture in the vegetation on the horizon and the more detailed yet not exactly lettuce in the front.
I guess I do remember something - because it was romaine I was portraying but I would never have known that by just looking - it was a representation like most art - enough to evoke a feeling and a time but hopefully be its own original place to get lost inside.
See Also
- Experimental Field - notice how romaine lettuce was portrayed here - both more detailed and more abstract - it’s not easy being green
- Original Art - discussion of different meanings and understandings or what original art really is and isn’t
- Tissue Collage - a page filled with examples - no enlargements here but one can get enough of the idea of why this seems so reminiscent of the above work
Relevant Tags:clouds, collage, digital painting, horizon, original place, original prints, sketch, texture
March 21st, 2006 by admin
Digital Medium: Texture, Collage, Technique Develop
Tractor Sunset - Gallery Page -Digital Painting Fall 2003
Sunset Seen - Gallery Page - Digital Painting Fall 2005
I was noticing the top painting the other day and focusing on the texture in the fields. It reminds me of torn paper or a collage with tissue. I think this is most obvious looking at the largest view.
I like the naive quality to this piece. The way the streaming sunlight is represented, the simple figure on the tractor and the colorful, collage-like sky.
The bottom piece, Sunset Seen, was painted looking from almost the same spot a slightly different direction - two years later. I am putting these together like this because it demonstrates how much technique I have been able to develop in the last couple of years.
Much of what keeps this exciting to me is that there is so much room for growth with the medium. Actually, it is so open ended as far as possiblity that I find myself making additional rules to have the sufficient limits for this medium to work.
In any event, I am not sure that the bottom piece is a better painting, but I do think - looking at the sky, the mountains, the irrigation and numerous other details; it is obvious how much more sophisticated my use of the medium has become. It also is better viewed
large.
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Relevant Tags:Art Prints, artistic medium, collage, develop technique, digital medium, digital painting, texture
February 24th, 2006 by admin
Simplicity, Irresistible Play, Improvement, Doubt
Unfinished state - Horizon 2 - third stopping point
The first two unfinished stages to this piece can be found below or by clicking here.
I added a great deal of texture from the last stage, but the point of this writing is more about the different directions one can go. After making all the changes, I wasn’t so sure I had improved over the original feeling of the piece. There is always beauty in simplicity. On the other had one needs to enjoy the process of creating enough to feel the accomplishment.
Next stage of Unfinished Horizon
Between the top stage and the bottom stopping point, I wasn’t sure the direction I wanted to go. But I started playing with some copying and pasting - a computer tact that is sometimes irresistible.
The work does now look more collage-like but it is also feels more dynamic - but then where is the simplicity of yesterday?
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Relevant Tags:beauty, collage, digital painting, Direction in Art, Irresistible, play, simplicity, Unfinished Stages
