Posts Tagged ‘Digital Art’
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
seeing for the first time
Rooted Tree – digital art – finger painting – rendering from memory impression – Dan Beck 2008
There are trees like this at one of the places I frequent with my exercise craving dog – it took me a while to notice them.
But like with most things – once one finally sees something – one starts to see the same thing more frequently. Even though I am an artist and probably more observant than most, I am keenly aware of how much of life I miss, until I become finally aware.
Perception, attention, and understanding are all fascinating subjects – I paint from an impression – a memory – quite frequently – knowing that my understanding plays an even bigger role in what I project when painting.
The intention here is not fantasy, but fun and freedom to portray the essential double rooted nature of these trees on the hillside – blasting with my own color but attempting to convey
the beauty and oddness that strikes me and makes me smile when I see them.
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Tags: Art, color, Digital Art, digital_art, hills, painting, trees
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
All Play
Play Print 1 with Dog – digital art painting – Dan Beck 2008
This is a very recent piece of digital art – playing around with a new template – hoping to introduce a new option for sharing art – more interested in the template size and corresponding original prints than the actual painting.
As a result, I have approached this work as the title suggests – from the point of play. Despite the play – and the landscape painted with abandon – it wreaked of a particular area I had been taking my dog, Bogart, to get some exercise.
Though he probably should have been scampering around the hillside – I ended up putting him in the corner pushing my brand or symbol around – kind of indicative of our relationship I guess – teaching him that I am in charge yet him pushing and resisting most of the way.
some sort of weird karma – reminds me of myself when I was adolescent… and sometimes still am
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- Digital Art – ambiguities, distinctions, and open ended meaning of digital art
- Sharing Art – search result finds blog – nice image – traced from a photo – not at all like my work – but creativity needs to be encouraged
- Tour of Youth Arts Collective – art fosters problem solving and thinking outside the box – I have seen the yaksters work and I it points more towards the kind of world we need …
Tags: Art, creativity, Digital Art, digital_art, hills, painting, prints
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
new format brings on different vision
digital art (painting) - 2 Much 2 Control – Dan Beck 2008
I have started work on a new project – which has lead to a new sized template and as a result a more fluid and playful way of creating. Not totally sure where the idea came from – but that is the nature of ideas – if one lets the mind wander and don’t rule things out before you even think about them – you find something even better as you progress.
On the path, one is always trying to take things to the next level – always striving for a new twist. My desire for a new template was one thing – but the resulting play and at least the look of this piece is a bit different and a nice side benefit.
The tree concept is just about as old as I am – one of the first things I ever committed successfully to paper – I find myself painting often when I am playing – and taking walks to give my dog the running exercise he needs has made me notice some incredible trees.
The solidness of the foreground tree – is about how we focus our attention – but also something that worked most successfully in a recently shown piece. The title is both about attitude towards world these days and the nature of trying to paint on an old computer with a template that is a bit too big for its memory. I used two different computers to create this piece because the old one – just couldn’t compute.
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- Digital Art – just proving that the multiple meanings of language are also a bit too much to control
- Frozen PB&J – not particularly related – but part of that creating solutions to problems which don’t really exist – and a fun result for “just couldn’t compute”
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
digital digits
On Halloween, I thought for a costume, I would shave and pull my hair back – was planning on putting on a suit too – not my normal look – if there is such a thing. In any event, it is getting to be time to put the beard back – not into the daily shaving routine and my partner likes the less scratchy beard.
So the above is a laptop snapshot – I used it for a model for the finger-painted digital art below
This digital painting – not the way I normally work, was painted using a photo model. Digital art like digital painting could mean a lot of different things. My work starts from a blank page but the field is wide open – it is new and wide reaching in possibilities.
I know many people who might have taken the photo and altered and painted on it in photoshop and quite likely come up with something quite cool. I am in favor of all creativity – but I simply used the image as a model to challenge my abilities to render an image using my fingers as a mouse to paint with – a new challenge for me – and I think a pretty good likeness. But of course I’ve seen myself.
See Also
- Figures Art Gallery – last years innovative gallery – figures
- Digital Finger Painting – article I was emailed today – not at all what I mean by the term – but these are new terms, new technology, and everyone has to coin his own terms at this point
Tags: Art, creativity, Digital Art, digital painting, digital_art, painting
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Mock Hats Make Great Fun
First Night Sketch – digital sketch – laptop finger painting
12/31/2007 – First Night Monterey – Dan Beck
Last night,
Last Year,
- a small group from Salinas made a showing of some of our art and culture at First Night Monterey – the giant hats you see – were made from foam rubber by some Everett Alvarez High School Students.
From what I understand they dove right in to recreate the Claes Oldenburg sculpture found in Salinas – Hats in Three Stages of Landing. Its current state is loaded with under-rim graffiti – not pictured here – but the kids put the authentic finishing touches on.
The views and interactions with the foam hats were sketched on a laptop with finger painting in- precision – quick and childlike – like the interactions – the scene with young man’s torso covered, kids underneath, photo ops for everyone – dogs – Santa hat – flashing bunny ears – different hats and hair – and a later seen person on stilts added to the scene quickly with this almost cartoon-like feeling.
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Creating Changes Rules
Self Portrait – digital art – finger painting – Dan Beck November 2007
I have not been writing much – rather formulating some next moves – next art – next music projects. Too much of the blogging time, we write just to write – to bring attention to our work or simply share into cyberspace.
Whether I am able or not – my hope from here is to write when it is right – when I have something new to share.
My previous self-portrait done earlier this year was done the way I do most of my work – from my head with some tweaking from visual inspection (when available).
This self portrait – also an exercise – of how well can I paint with my fingers? utilized the camera of my new laptop.
I don’t really like the idea of painting from a photo – seems a step removed to me – but I couldn’t resist the technology. And although it is a perfectly acceptable practice in digital art to paint and alter a photograph – that is not the tact I took here – just used it as a model.
See Also
- Art Not to be Sold – recent artwork, work for other purposes, and work I am undecided on how I want to sell or am simply saving for local purchase only – a guide to blog articles
- Creating Changes Rules – whether the verb is “Changes” or “Rules” – I am not the only one who has noticed
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
continuation of sketch requires deliberation
On Site 1 Plus – digital art – digital painting – Dan Beck 2007
I believe this is the last finished painting – it is a continuation from an on site work which I did a couple of weeks ago. I had seen so much more than I had had time to put into the original 40 minute sketch.
Having said that, I am not sure if this is a method I want to continue or not. There is something quite pure about the original painting – the continuation – with developed texture and depth is certainly more thorough; but I am not sure it adds anything essential to the original fresh sketch.
I handled the paint in a way reminiscent of Bold Glimpse because I have been looking at the piece a great deal and feeling like I had something special there.
Though I do like the finished work above – perhaps it is because I was taking too many directions here – following an on site feeling, developing, and perhaps mimicking while trying to remain fresh and bold at same time.
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- Bold Glimpse – availability of original prints for piece the bold painting style was inspired by
- Digital Art – discussion of the varied possibilities this art form takes
- Wu Guanzhong 吴冠中 (b. 1919) – found this gentleman’s work through an image search – its original simplicity appeals to me plus born the year of my mother
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
exercising the movable medium
On Site 1 – digital art – laptop finger painting – Dan Beck 2007
This is a sketch – on site – still working out the bugs for plein air – where to sit – place the computer – have enough shade? etc.
In some ways embarrassingly, this was done from the passenger’s seat of my car – it was dark enough to see the screen and the wheel wasn’t in the way – so sketching what I saw in 30 to 40 minutes prior to an appointment.
Like a lot of my recent work, this was an exercise – not a bad thing – just trying to get a feel for painting with a laptop and using my fingers instead of a mouse. I subsequently took this piece and worked on it in my normal fashion – sketched turned to fully textured and more developed digital painting- but what a challenge to actually make the digital art better.
This captured what I saw – in a way that couldn’t be done at a later time. I am trying to understand the differences and possibilities here.
See Also
- Three-Finger Exercise – TIME – a review of a 1998 play called “Art” – the language of the reviewer and the content of the play are remarkably in tune with my own
- Another Sunset Sketch – though not done on site – the same kind of quick rendition of a scene – done within moments of viewing
- The subjective truth – article title (My Camera World: What I Saw, My Camera Captured and What My Mind Thought it Saw) – but all art including photography requires interpretation
Tags: Art, Digital Art, digital_art, painting, texture
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Painting Possibility
Integration – digital art / digital painting / original prints – Dan Beck 2007
As much as I think this is a sweet scene, I find it to be as much of a commentary of the way things could be.
The sunset was real – the image can’t do life justice. But then again it does enunciate what was so cool. The birds came out to enjoy the sunset – watching along with us – different colors (different ethnicity’s?) side by side in harmony with the ocean the beach and the sky – a rocking evening.
For us observing – we were integrated into the scene as well – something about natural beauty that can do that. If you feel a little like you are out there with us – I have done my job. If not, I have a least done my part at digital beauty duty.
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
closeness to finished art – spin of abstract
finger paint 1 – Dan Beck – digital painting / digital art – 2007
Things happen sometimes all at the same time. Discussion of the distance between artist and finished product – how digital feels different than the closeness of paint. I don’t know if this is true – but it is something an artist friend and I have been discussing in relation to different work I have done.
Suddenly – a good wrench is thrown in – a laptop gift – a trade-show prize that was generously given to me by the woman of my dreams. Damn – I sound like I am blogging.
So with the laptop comes art – no mouse – just fingers – finger painting – how fun is that? Plein air to come. So my first adventure as an original print looks better sideways.
At least it seems that way at the time. I am a firm believer in the emotion of the process of creating art coming through in to the finished painting.
Digital art is not nearly as physical as sculpture for instance, but it is not without emotion. Brushes come in different lengths – an artist steps in and steps back – just like a viewer might.
And paintings should work from all directions – so they say.
See Also
- Abstract Art Gallery – examples of other abstract work at Outhouse Studios
- Can Computers Be Creative?- sometimes a related search leads to the crux of the digital doubt – not how close to the finished product – but who is really doing it
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