Posts Tagged ‘digital painting’
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
the timing of finishing – art and reality
Further Along Tree 1 – Dan Beck – digital art painting 2008
This digital painting was finished over a month ago. The previous article showing the version of this painting which felt finished, balanced, and worth saving, – based upon the piece itself and not the original vision; was written over two weeks ago.
I guess it is rather apparent that my writing is not keeping up with my creating. Actually I find everything takes longer than expected – my head is generally way ahead of my physical world – but then that makes sense. How could matter move as fast as thought?
And why do we expect things to take the time we think things will take – even if we have done something before – it might take more or less time – circumstances are always different.
But most of us, including myself, have expectations about how long even things we have never done will take.
The finished painting above matched my concept and vision more closely as well as my expected timeline for doing a painting – there is more texture, more depth, more visual confusion – and more what I had in mind to begin with -
What is wonderful about art and life – is that sometimes the head gets to follow the body – follow the physical world – and sometimes the timetable of the physical world is smarter than the head.
See Also
- Timing Innovative Music – previous article about time and timing and sharing my own creativity
- Time Expectations – though I do not completely share the capitalistic sentiments, I whole-heartedly concur that our expectations affect the timeline of completing a project
- Digital Art Prints – about art prints, digital painting, and what it means for outhouse studios to produce original prints
Tags: Art, Art Prints, creativity, digital art prints, digital painting, music, painting, prints, texture
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
evolving landscape
Further Along Tree – Dan Beck – unsigned – unfinished? – digital art painting 2008
On April fool’s day one should hope for a joke – if I have one for the day – it is unfinished like the piece above – stopped at this point and saved because it looked balanced, finished, and pleasing – but I knew I was not done because I had not portrayed the essential aspects of the tree and background from the impression on that day.
This is also based on the same tree and the same tree – but further along in the season – as well as the pun of further down the road.
As with the other jokes – one might not get that the three trees are one and the same – but then they are not anyway – each day different – changing like us -
if we trusted our senses and not our minds – much if not all, would be unrecognizable when we view what with our minds we consider to be the same thing -
That came out so convoluted sounding – I think the joke may be on me.
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Tags: Art, Digital Art, digital painting, digital_art, painting, trees
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
out of time
Learning a newly written song, getting lost inside the world of a new painting, reading an excellent book are all a bit like falling in love…
I suppose anything which demands the attention such that the world stands still – that time doesn’t feel like it exists, that puts us completely in the moment and doesn’t want to let us go – has that quality.
River Spring Fauna – digital art painting – Dan Beck 2008
The art above is about the view from above – looking out on the valley – seeing the Salinas river – seeing the incredible texture and color of Spring below – that tapestry of color that pulls and mesmerizes – yes nature can pull off the effect of timelessness as well.
In the nature of out of time – and not in the fashion of deadlines – it seemed somehow appropriate on this first day (it was when I wrote this) of Spring to share a song of joy, love, and being lost or perhaps found in the world of timelessness.
Not part of the Red Eye Recordings – it is a track from 2005 CD: 1danband | dansingnew
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Out of Time – as described above – living in the timeless moment – in love, in life – music, words, performance, production – dan beck | outhouse studios | 1danband |dansingnew – 2005
- Keats, “Bright Star”, timelessness addressed – a very nicely done poem analysis – addressing the same kind of issues – and looking at multiple meanings rather than just one
- Digital Painting – a look at the special nature of art at outhouse studios and discussion of terms
Tags: Art, color, digital painting, music, painting, texture
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
priceless necessity
Horizon 4 - Digital Painting 2006
Having posted the first two tracks of the “Red Eye Recordings” – a music project that is intended to be listened to in order (for the most part) because there is a story to be told; it is time to introduce the third track with some explanation.
The song – “Money is too important” is about the necessity and the change it brings about – the nature of seeking satisfaction from things or consumerism – How much is enough? – always more than one has – and my observations on how often having money changes people.
And of course, having said that – it is my need as well, to have money to live on and continue to produce my art and music.
I am offering these tracks free – and will continue to – but eventually plan on making it possible to contribute to the outhouse studio fund -
The songs are about my observations – about life – about capitalism – about equality – about sickness – about letting go -
It is both too personal and somehow improper to put a price on -
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- Money Is Too Important – Dan Beck 2006- to quote the song “I’d like less worrying, though I am not at all bad off, I’d like less worrying, like everyone I’ve known”
- Credit to Johnny Mandel and Mike Altman – for MASH melody and lyrical reference – nothing is created in a vacuum and I kept hearing their lyrics and melody in the music
- Horizon 4 – current art print availability for above digital art and its original prints
Tags: Art, art print, Digital Art, digital painting, money changes, music, original prints, painting, prints, satisfaction
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
art and project remain remote
Remote Tree – digital art painting – Dan Beck 2008
I am working on a new project which I am not quite ready to reveal – but should be coming along rather quickly. Until I get the pieces in place, I am keeping a bit of a lid on it.
Like a lot of the art I do – I like that moment of unveiling – that moment when the image becomes printed – that tad bit of out of control and luck which can be better or worse, but is mostly better than one anticipates.
This is one of the first images from a new template which I am most excited about – size wise. This image was about a specific tree – a place – a feeling – more than an actual – but also about fitting the new project. I believe I have improved upon the template since and it will prove to be an invaluable size – opening up many new doors for a larger range in the size of art prints.
In any event, this digital painting was fun enough to warrant sharing – and so I am.
See Also
- Treework – first tree image with digital medium – still strong – but certainly not as developed with the medium. Innocence is worth noting
- Moment of Unveiling – a strange link to be sure – but google keeps getting more interesting in its results – part of a book by Nietzsche – one of my favorite (though unfortunately misunderstood) philosophers
- Opening New Doors – not so related but an interesting read and another link between art and life
Tags: Art, Art Prints, digital medium, digital painting, painting, prints
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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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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
View of Salinas – part of Steinbeck Exhibit
Compressed View – pigment print from Digital Painting – Dan Beck 2006
In conjunction with the National Steinbeck Center and Artistas Unidos – Artist United, I am showing this work at a pretty optimum sized art print (30 x 20 inch image).
This blog announcement comes the day of the opening; but the work will stay up until February. I chose this pigment print because of the intimate size of the gallery and for what I thought would blend well with the other artists in the exhibit – Faces and Places: Salinas.
This is also a good work for being representative of Steinbeck Country – it captures the feeling of the land but by utilizing the language of digital painting and enough of the traditions of art to have been selected by the Monterey County Arts Commission for the 2007 calendar.
People in the area have seen this piece – but many, if not most, have not seen it at its proper size – and the Steinbeck setting certainly can’t hurt.
In some ways, I would have preferred to show a work which shows more of the human condition, that Steinbeck so beautifully wrote about – but there will be another time I hope.
See Also
- Compressed View – original print options for above digital art – exhibit piece is framed slightly different – special orders are possible
- Harvest Depth – original print options for work with more of a people aspect of Steinbeck country
- Artistas Unidos – Artist United – grass roots organization partnering artists with local businesses with a goal of bringing all cultures together through the arts
Tags: Art, Art Prints, digital painting, painting, prints
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
sharing concept – overlap of world views
Love, Death, and in Between – Dan Beck 2007 – digital art
This is not a particularly representative work for me, but then I see my work as being in transition – which is indeed what this is about.
The digital painting above was done for the Day of the Dead and accompanying celebration here in Salinas – though I didn’t exactly include a Steinbeck Theme – just wasn’t thinking about that aspect at the time.
What I was thinking about what the different world spheres we all live in – how they seemingly overlap, sometimes don’t, and sometimes aren’t even seen. Without the confines of time and space, I am not sure how in flux the world would seem – but imagine a world where we saw every change and everything in flux – not just a swirling world, but the separation between life and death being blurred.
Add to that the newness of painting mostly by finger movements and finished by mouse – a blending of new and known – and at the very least(or most) “brilliant in color”.
See Also
- Dreampt Away – a brilliant colored piece from another time – not related – but for the colors of dreaming and the obvious flux of that overlapping world
- Escher’s Reflective Sphere – school project shows how we can learn from what exists and take it somewhere else – this is exactly the kind of reflection I would like to see from my own art – as would any artist – learning how to see is an ongoing process
Tags: Art, color, digital painting, painting
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
observing the flow
Kitties - digital art – painting – Dan Beck 2003
Over the weekend, we held a giant yard sale in which I sold a few experimentally framed and matted pieces along with every other odd and ends thing under the sun. This particular piece was one I sold.
I have been too busy trying to move to be able to blog, but thought I could take a few minutes today – to share this piece. This digital painting was and is about pushing the limits.
I didn’t even know I could paint cats on the computer when I tackled this piece. Perspective was not as much of a concern as making the cats look cat like.
Even to this day, one of the things I actually like is that the medium is still not completely under my control. There are both happy accidents as well as a rather loose control over much of the ways I impart color and form. I can do things I couldn’t do with conventional paint and brush, but my control is not nearly as developed.
The skill is more about learning how to observe and duplicate playing with the medium. The freedom to let go and make mistakes is also the freedom to control the uncontrollable.
See Also
- Kitties – availability of original prints for the above digital art painting
- Slow Leadership: Getting comfortable with control – related by the notion of controlling the uncontrollable – seemed like sound advice though not so much about what I was referring – learning through observation
Tags: Art, color, digital painting, painting, perspective, prints
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
reiterating: results are in the doing
This is not my normal style of digital painting, but I suppose it is not that far removed. I have no qualms about using color – and the intent of painting from a simple line drawing was mostly an exercise – an exercise in approaching painting in a different way.
Just like taking a class – exercises can be valuable. Just as the definition of digital art is rather wide open so are its limits. Many programs allow one to remove something unwanted that was many steps back – programs like photoshop and illustrator which use layers for instance. Even without that, one could save unlimited versions of a piece so that one might not go down the wrong road.
The problem with any of these approaches is that – it is important to hold on to process when one paints – if one doesn’t get that meditative, get lost in the painting – what good is it?
Lesson 3 is about utilizing rules and limits – to have freedom to create inside and create necessity for trying things in new ways.
See Also
- Original Art-chives – page shows development of technique and how technique is not really what determines whether a finished work has appeal or not
- Photoshop Layers Tutorial – you will notice this explains well – but until you do it yourself you probably won’t get it. My personal experience was being shown, but not remembering until I essentially figured it out on my own.
Tags: Art, color, Digital Art, digital painting, digital_art, Original Art, original_art, painting
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