No Rules
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.
See Also
- Valley Work
availability of art prints for Valley Work - Rules Art Quotations from The Painter’s Keys Resource of Art Quotations
quotes of all sorts - rules and no rules - No rules. Just write.: Is it still good art if nobody likes it?
Comentary on NY Times article - but right in pointing out selling and good are not necessarily the same
