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misspelling and exaggeration make for something special

Mountain Headress - digital painting / art prints - DB 2005

My attention has been elsewhere and it has been a few days since I have been able to paint - a few days since I have been able to write new music. It is not a dry spell but rather I have been preoccupied with other things.

I feel that the above piece is actually quite strong. The concept was what I saw - the cloud as a headdress for the mountain. I didn’t spell it correctly in the first place and never changed it. I think I like the way the word looks with one d better even though it is wrong.

And like that statement, the above piece exists - almost a head - bold contrasting - billowing cloud of a headdress and more obvious or visible than the original scene itself. I like it better with one d.

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Exaggeration and layout form pick of the picking

Two Pick 2 - digital painting - Dan Beck - 2006

This piece came as a direct result of not feeling like I had expressed myself fully about what I had seen. If you look at the yesterday’s article, you will see a digital painting and explanation of its origin.

What I was not able to express in the first piece, was how down in the row, these two strawberry pickers were. It isn’t that the berries and rows are so high - but bent over picking, they are really down in there - and particularly from this angle from the road - looking down the row.

This is exaggerated a tad - the rows are too wide, the people a little small … but when I look at this art print - the statement is striking and bold.

You know they are down in there, you know they are picking fast, and you know the field is vast.

For art prints from the above digital painting - Two Pick 2 - please email specialorders@outhousestudios.net.

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