Sync Hoes – digital image – Dan Beck 2009

This painting was created in early April.  It is an image which  comes from both what I witness and what I understand.

This is often the nature of how I create – something captures my attention – in this case the in-sync hoeing that looks like a dance to a slow passing motorist.  It was the relationship of the field workers I was focused on and not the location.

There was a place – but again I was more concerned with the color.  Attention is related to understanding because so much of what we see is dependent upon what we are looking to see.

One could see the above art as abstract, as colorful, as primitive, as movement or perhaps none of the above.  It is my understanding which makes it work – I hope it works for yours as well.

See Also

• Hoe Dance – 2005 painting with a similar theme

• Original Art – exploring the meaning

Rolling Fields – Digital Painting – 2004 – Dan Beck
This must be one of my favorites – I like it’s simplicity, I like the strong feeling of the how the fields roll here.

I am featuring it again because I stumbled upon this image in a county newspaper website – I knew they had published a couple of my pieces last summer – so I searched their site and found…

Rolling Fields of a Different Color

It perhaps explains their commentary. I guess it is some kind of RGB/CMYK confusion – but I have to confess I kind of like it.

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Anyway – I show this because I think sometimes that printing is a lot like the above examples. I am sure there are a zillion articles on how to print accurately.All I can pass on is that if it isn’t right, you need to experiment…and make notes on the back of your images about the settings. Print small so you use less ink and try to be methodical and use common sense.I am on my third version of how to print – my first two were good – but the third is the best. The differences are subtle, but have to do with richness of color and feeling I can’t quite put my finger on.Technology and color profiles were supposed to make it easier – I’ve heard from many – it is not so. But I do know that at Outhouse Studios and the local printer I work with, we have the formula down:

Art prints always look as good as the digital painting … and 99% of the time, they look even better.

See Also

• Rolling Fields
  Availability of Art Prints for Rolling Fields
• Color Management
  Reads pretty well and sounds good – IN THEORY
• Vector Point Printing & Scenic Visions Gallery
  Salinas, CA printer – very large format – great attention to detail