Posts Tagged ‘composition’
Friday, July 28th, 2006
and crisscross angles of field and fog
Hoes in the Mist – Digital Painting / art prints – Dan Beck 2006
Inspiration is a fun thing sometimes. In the above painting it came in two ways and in pretty quick order.
I spied the gang of workers hoeing – the conditions were fog and mist – and I had that without missing a beat moment – “hoes in the mist” – some of the ramifications of which can be found in earlier article.
I had wanted the workers be to kind of lost in the fog as well – I could only see them for a brief moment and they frankly kind of blended in.
From a painting and composition standpoint, I really like the crisscross angles of field and fog and I guess I am ok with the alliteration too.
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
simplicity, colors, and composition combine
Sunset Startled – digital painting / art prints – Dan Beck 2005
I was pretty happy with this digital painting when I finished. Sometimes it takes a while to appreciate the work one has done and other times it is immediate. I find the same to be true with music I’ve written.
I kept the fence simple and the green field very austere as well. But that little squashed setting sun was pretty right on – and the complexity of the horizon itself quite fascinating.
What I think mostly is that it is pleasing in its colors and in its composition – enough to make one feel good. And if I recall correctly, it was a really special evening .
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
as art prints are more revealing that digital images – so can art be to seeing
Out Field – digital painting / art prints – Dan Beck 2006
This is an excellent example of how art prints can show so much more that is in a piece than simply looking at the monitor image of the digital painting.
By looking at a detail closer to its intended size (results will vary with monitor resolution*) – one can see how much is being missed at what is close to a monitor sized image.*
The content and composition is pretty much a composite of much of what I see in the fields around here. All of these things are going on at once, but in truth there is no way to see them all from any perspective that I am familiar with here.
So I invented one – hoping to show more of the reality than one might actually be able to see.
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
writing about digital painting again and its very existence don’t follow the rules
Valley Work – digital painting / art prints – Dan Beck 2005
Just like the creative process itself, there are no rules when it comes to writing about a piece again.
The digital painting itself was about no rules. The hills and the dirt were both created using a lot of cutting and pasting – taking sections already created and twisting and turning them to create the undulations that you see in the work.
It is not my normal way of painting – but I wanted that kind of energy and in some ways I was trying to emulate the success of a previous piece.
I love the yellow and orange sky – I don’t know where it came from – but it creates a feeling I would never have gotten if I chose to be more literal.
The digital painting required working at different levels – in order to create the figures, the digital image was zoomed in close to 400% – and it was also zoomed out to make sure it was a balanced composition.
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
size of print can help you to feel the scene
Wave Spray – digital painting / art prints – Dan Beck 2004
As I look at this piece, I realize I have not been taking advantage of the close proximity to the beach. I know I am not alone in this – but I hate to think of myself as taking things for granted.
The above piece works beautifully large – no really large – where you feel the spray and imagine the smoothness of the sand.
This is both the beauty and the disadvantage of this medium. For some landscape art - large is what makes it work. The above digital painting is an all right enough composition – but it isn’t that exciting – but large and you have the impression you are there.
Well almost, I think I need to make my way to the beach soon – if you don’t live close to one, I am sorry – but more reason for me to not squander it.
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Exaggeration and layout form pick of the picking
Two Pick 2 – digital painting – Dan Beck – 2006
This piece came as a direct result of not feeling like I had expressed myself fully about what I had seen. If you look at the yesterday’s article, you will see a digital painting and explanation of its origin.
What I was not able to express in the first piece, was how down in the row, these two strawberry pickers were. It isn’t that the berries and rows are so high – but bent over picking, they are really down in there – and particularly from this angle from the road – looking down the row.
This is exaggerated a tad – the rows are too wide, the people a little small … but when I look at this art print – the statement is striking and bold.
You know they are down in there, you know they are picking fast, and you know the field is vast.
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Friday, June 9th, 2006
Picking – the scene through the window
Window View 1 – unfinished digital painting – Dan Beck 2006
I was looking out the breakfast room window and had this view. I removed the little bit of yard, fence, and road and took my eye directly into the fields across the street.
There were actually a few more people hunched over quickly picking berries into flats into packages and flats that were generally unseen. But this seemed the right amount for composition and digital painting canvas size.
I was compelled – even though this has been a popular them for me. Maybe I don’t feel I have gotten it right yet – maybe it is because it is all around me right now and maybe its because immigration has been such a hot topic recently.
I like the loose swimming look that the piece has currently – it will be interesting to see how it ends up when it is done – kind of hope I can keep it simple – we will see…
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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Second level of completion gives better idea where piece is headed
Unfinished digital painting – Grandeur 2 – Dan Beck
Like the previous article, I am sharing a piece before it has been finished. Unlike the first offering, I do know the outcome today and perhaps you will also.
The program I use has a color fill tool – most do. Because I had stretched in outlines, it was generally pretty easy to fill between the lines and create a second level of completion to the piece.
I chose a mix between gradients and personalized textures – ones which I adjusted manually or pulled from a section of a previous painting. I can paint using sections of my own painting – a startling realization – which gives me a never ending palette – but like most tools can be easily overused.
So far my steps seem rather obvious. You can not develop a piece without the basic composition and without the basic color scheme. I don’t have a mystical way of doing things, but where I choose to go from here is what makes things more interesting to me -
because the process of art is one of going down any number of possible paths.
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Doesn’t even touch the capabilities of creating palettes with this program – not sure they know
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Thursday, April 20th, 2006
Abstract madras mountains and large format art prints
More Mountain & Clouds – digital painting -2004 – Dan Beck
Somewhere in the middle of the piece showcased yesterday and the one showcased two days prior, was the creation of the above piece.
The hill mountains are swallowed by clouds – a common occurrence here, but one which remains incredible to look at. The treatment of the mountains was like an abstract painting – a madras collage – not so much about how they look as how they look and feel.
This piece is only being offered in a large format. You can see it gets more interesting with each enlargement, but would become ever more exciting with this madras mountain look exposed.
One would think that with the sophistication of computers, one could create digital paintings which would work in a multitude of sizes right off. It can be done, but not always – and for me it has taken experimentation and development.
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Friday, April 7th, 2006
Rolling Hills and Textured Irrigation lead to Versatile Art Print
Irrigate 1 – Digital Painting & Art Print – 2005 – Dan Beck
The piece above is one of the first pieces I felt like I really hooked – right after I had finished. Not only pleasing right off, it is also quite representative of the world around me.
The hills surrounding Fremont Peak have the rolling quality portrayed even though they are represented as being almost transparent.
The striped land with the texture of irrigation is as it is here. I don’t know that I can find a representative photo; I have few in my own collection since I work from my impressions.
The other thing that is significant about this piece is that it works well printed small or large. It is grander printed large as one might expect, but just as you can see it well above vs. the enlargement – it shows well as a print on 13×19" watercolor paper.
I have developed a great deal of technique, and even my attention to composition has improved since creating this, but the piece remains strong. It has stood up well over time and has continued to have a remarkably good response from viewers and other artists.
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