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Revisiting a Digital Painting

successful does not mean wanting to live with

Cloud Cover - Digital Painting 2006 - Dan Beck

Enlarge - Cloud Cover - Digital Painting 2006- Dan Beck

I keep trying to look at the positives in having to move my website. On the blog alone, there is a year’s worth of links to my site - including images - which don’t usually link - because every image and page is case specific with my new web-host’s server.

So one of the bright sides is getting to revisit pieces when I get the link working. The above digital painting is such a piece.

Interesting when I wrote about this piece before, I commented on how non-real so much of it was even though it captured the feeling of the scene.

Today I think how real it is - how successful it was - and yet still probably not a piece that too many would want to live with … I mean who really wants to have a rainy day on their wall - unless perhaps one lives in the arid desert.

For any desert folks looking for art prints of above digital painting, please email: specialorders@outhousestudios.net.

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Drawing on the Desert

Painting, Memory, Beauty, Artistic Impression

Mojave Desert - Dan Beck - Digital Painting 2005

Mojave Desert - Digital Painting 2005

If I had to pinpoint where this is other than an impression from my memory, I would say it is the stretch of old route 66 between Kingman and Oatman, AZ.  In any event, it is how I processed that stretch of land.

The colors of the desert, the rocks, the cragginess, the brush, the aridness, the open space and the quiet isolation are what I took.  I can only make something beautiful in different ways; there is no way to compete with nature.

Even a photograph won’t do that. Three dimensions into two and active experience into something you can hold on to are not really possible.  It is curious what we attempt with art and scrap books.

But then again, the art can become something which is beautiful in its own right and that to me is the goal.

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