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working differently to keep things fresh

No Particular View - digital painting - Dan Beck 2006

When I started painting this morning I didn’t have any particular scene in mind - no scene burning inside me and no real concept. But as quickly as the first mark I found myself taking things differently. This is not an uncommon practice for me -

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in fact, it is my practice in both senses of the word.

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It is important to keep things fresh - for me, it is often something simple. In this case I started with single lines to define the piece. I used a combination of freehand color gradient drawing, lines, and fill-in’s to make the fields and mountains what they are.

It is not a complete departure from how I normally work or a complete departure from my other work.  What I was able to do without a specific scene in mind, was accomplish the feeling of hills, sloped fields, and mountains that is the Salinas Valley.

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See Also

• Irrigate 1
  another landscape of similar origin - one which has passed the test of time
• Fast and Beautiful: The A-life Undeadening of Painting via the Digital
  singing the praises of the digital medium - in practice I concur
• practice
  a philosophic discussion of art and practice

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New Landscape Art in Gallery

Grape Rows & Mountains - Landscape Art Gallery

This piece demonstrates beautifully some of what I particularly like about this medium. The sky demonstrates what is known as a gradient - where you can see the transition from one color to the next most clearly.

The computer makes this gradient color quite accessible, but what it also allows me to do - because I have figured out how - is to paint with such gradients and overlap them so they create new colors and shadings which would be quite difficult, if not impossible with traditional painting methods.

My feeling is that this piece captures a peacefulness and serenity of the foothills of the Santa Lucia mountains. There is no attempt at literalness - but the beauty of the translucent colors and the simplicity of the design captures what is going on.

This is one of the new pieces found in the Landscape Art Gallery at Outhouse Studios. It was created in the Spring of last year and is now making to the site.

There are over 50 new works on the site and a great deal of growth with the medium and fortunately with my own vision as an artist, as well.

See Also

• Landscape Art Gallery
  New work has been added - look at some of other pieces
• Did Artist Vincent Van Gogh Have a Color Vision Defect
  Interesting - but more interesting to be looking for explanation in what is not understood

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