Posts Tagged ‘fields’
Monday, May 14th, 2007
rendering familiar beautiful scene
Strawberry Alley – digital painting – Dan Beck 2007
Down the road from me is a view – that has been catching my eye since I first saw it seven years ago. It changes through the seasons but always has these overlapping hills through a small window through the eucalyptus trees.
Whether it is plowed and furrowed or actually producing berries – I am drawn to it. For whatever reason – perhaps a matter of the right timing I have not chosen to paint it up until now.
Perhaps I wasn’t ready – a difficult view to give justice to – but I am happy with this rendition. I am finding that this image is translating the kind of pleasure I feel when I look at the actual scene.
I added a couple of extra hills here and the eucalyptus is kind of bamboo like – and so perhaps it is more of a “strawberry fields forever” than the alley that it is.
No matter – I find this to be a very pleasing digital painting and am looking forward to seeing a large art print for a more optimum effect.
See Also
- Checkerboard Valley – an earlier work with overlapping hills and portrait orientation – depth can be a little confusing in this piece but still quite pleasing with the quick figure in the foreground
- The Eucalyptus of California – everything most anyone could want to know about eucalyptus and more
Tags: Art, digital painting, fields, hills, painting, strawberry, trees
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Monday, May 7th, 2007
Momentarily Captured
Sunset Over Artichokes – digital painting – Dan Beck 2007
Above is my most recent digital painting – on my way home that evening I happened to take the route through the artichoke fields and glimpsed this sight.
It was fleeting – the color, the depth, the folding hills – some from reality, some from memory – but the portrayal worked.
I have shied away from doing artichokes – more jagged and painstaking a subject than I really want to get into – I generally find them other worldly. But in the light of the sunset – they were warm rows – less defined and calling my name.
And I knew I must paint what I had seen -
After one sitting I stopped here – because I really liked it – I worked on it more the next day as you will see later – but I think I captured more of what I wanted in that first sitting alone.
See Also
- Fennel Field & Sky – first day’s stopping point – captures spirit better than successive versions – this is purchasing info for art prints of a different but stylistically similar work.
Tags: Art, color, digital painting, fields, hills, painting, prints
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
quilted blades and aerial spray have added meaning
Quilted Spray - art prints / digital painting – Dan Beck – 2005
I am featuring this piece today – one because I gallery chanced and image rouletted upon it and two because it is getting to that time of year. Spring is rampant here and pollen and every other allergen upon us – throw in a few sprays and who knows what the results might be.
I love my surrounded by fields setting, but I know I need to get out.
When I wrote about this digital painting before, one of the things I omitted was the ridiculousness of the blades of the helicopter – the seemingly most dangerous aspect of a helicopter. Everyone crouches even though they couldn’t hit them.
The blades have been turned into fabric here- quilted looking – thus making the spray – though cool and beautiful, appear even less safe.
One can always add meaning.
See Also
- Quilted Spray – art print options and availability for above digital painting
- The Other Side – there are always at least two sides to anything – but yipes
- Budworks – haven’t seen this but it sounded interesting
Tags: Art, fields, painting, prints
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
more or less of reality can still capture feeling
Foothill Views – Digital Painting / Art Prints -2005
Well once I again, I am writing about a piece I have thoroughly discussed.
I write because I stumbled upon it today. I write because there is always something more to be said about a painting I like – and particularly one I like and created.
The rows are less perfect than the rows of reality. The patchwork is more blanket-like than the quilted hills themselves. The characters are more animated than the guys riding the tractor that day. My eye rolls up and down the hills even more than with the actual panorama.
But in two dimensions and a much smaller window – I have captured enough of the feeling of the area to enjoy being inside the painting.
I hope you are able to as well.
See Also
- Foothill Views – art print options for above digital painting
- Lure of the West / Rolling Hills – I have a piece by this same name but I included this link today because the image came up in an image search for “quilted hills” and I particularly liked the painting – the site has other interesting pieces as well
- Accidental Landscapes – forgot that I might actually find “quilted” hills in my searching – a lot of these are quite fun
Tags: Art, fields, hills, painting, prints
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
focus to harness an awkward imbalance
Field Fitting – digital painting / art prints – Dan Beck 2006
I don’t know if one can tell by looking, but this was a challenge for the eyes to make. A lot of the piece was done by filling in lines – not like conventional painting but with the unique tools of the computer – yet really focusing on getting in between.
I am particularly partial to this digital painting – I think the composition is compelling – one feels like one is at the end of the precipice. The fields undulate – the colors are more real than real – and there is this wonderful awkward imbalance of the man positioning the irrigation pipes and trying to harness nature.
Perhaps I read too much – but then again – I think it speaks strongly about my own vision and style.
See Also
Field Fitting – art print options and availability for above digital painting
Understand Your Subtle System – completely unrelated and particularly foreign to me – but quite interesting – searching the term: awkward imbalance
Tags: Art, color, composition, digital medium, fields, painting, prints
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
drive by landscape – fields, sky, and texture
Valley Colors – digital painting – Dan Beck 2007
There is a spot which this is loosely based on – I drive by it fairly regularly and it has a good view of the valley extending to the Santa Lucia Mountains and Mount Toro.
Like a lot of my work, it is more of a drive by impression – I saw color, and a few barns or houses, a few trees – but mostly the colors of sky and fields.
This is not a piece which knocked me over when I was finished – I wasn’t really sure about it – but there are many things I like: the short field growth in the front, the way the cloud twists like a ribbon, and the beautiful texture in the green field.
My eyes and mind move around the landscape well – so I guess I did ok.
Like all but a couple of my pieces – I started with a blank page and painted and created the digital painting by the strokes of a mouse.
See Also
- Big Valley 1 – another digital painting taken from an impression of pretty much the same spot
- From the ground up – an image of the Salinas Valley brought me to this site – good article about small organic growing in the area and the group ALBA
Tags: Art, color, fields, mountains, painting, Salinas Valley, texture, trees
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Pleasing colors, warmth, texture and angles capture the Salinas Valley feeling
Valley Comfort – digital painting / art prints – Dan Beck 2006
This is a well named piece on many levels. But as time has gone on, I find the comfort in the painting itself.
I didn’t invent these colors, but I sure find them pleasing together. The V of field and mountain is also nothing new – it is visible in nature as well as in other landscapes.
There is a warmth to the soil, fields and trees which hopefully makes one want to linger here. I really enjoy the Salinas Valley landscape and I suspect that that is the feeling which is coming through so strongly.
See Also
- Valley Comfort
art print options for above digital painting
- Salinas Valley
simply an image – looks like Spreckels – but similar to rendering above
- Longfield
earlier work and landscape with strong angular feel
Tags: Art, color, digital painting, fields, landscape, landscapes, painting, prints, Salinas Valley, texture, trees
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Friday, December 8th, 2006
revisiting texture and feeling of abstract rendition of hills
The Hills You Say – digital painting / art prints – Dan Beck
I came across this piece today while making it available again for purchase – I suppose a strange benefit of having to redo the entire shopping cart and database of close to a thousand items.
I liked this piece at the time despite not feeling like it was one of my best – but today I am really taken by the color and texture.
I love the bright orange – I love the way the hills feel like they themselves are being blown in the wind. It reminds me of the color and light right before a storm …
something I am seeing today.
See Also
- Scene before a Storm
Landscape photos – next shot looks like earlier before storm and maybe closer to what I am thinking
- Before the Storm
A number of nice paintings here – by Maria Bertran – don’t know the artist but like what I saw
- The Hills You Say
purchasing options for this limited edition print
Tags: Art, color, fields, hills, painting, prints, texture
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
surprising show from the color of grape vines
Autumn Grape Color – digital painting / art prints – Dan Beck 2006
Fall is reserved for the East Coast – mostly New England. I say this out of complete prejudice from having witnessed the New England Fall many a time.
Now that I live in California – I do notice signs of Fall – some changing leaves from deciduous trees – but I was shocked last week to notice fields and fields of color from the dying grape vine leaves.
A spectacular show – that I hope I have put enough of my own spin on…
See Also
- Fall
Photos of Fall in New England – a sense of what it is like
- Foot Hill Views
a different piece this reminds me of
- Autumn Grape Color – art print options and availability for the above digital painting
Tags: Art, color, fields, painting, prints, trees
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
composition and details translate best printed large
Beyond the Ivy Fence – digital painting / art prints – DB 2005
The fields across the road are dirt again – it is that time of year. This piece was done earlier in the year than now – but as I was looking across the road, I was thinking about this.
Small and on the surface kind of boring – but then again not – the dirt and diamond an accurate portrayal – the ivy articulation a lot of fun.
As with a lot of the pieces in the Impressionist Art Gallery at Outhouse Studios – they were designed and intended to be printed large – they come alive when they are viewed that way – and frankly are just not done justice small.
Perhaps that is a weakness in composition or perhaps it is perfectly ok to not be all things, all sizes.
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Tags: Art, composition, fields, painting, prints
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