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skills, vocabulary, perception are not artistic achievement

painting from life as in the above.

I am proud of the skills I have developed but it gives me every bit as much pleasure to capture the feeling of a scene with even less at my disposal.

It was a dreary gray and rainy Halloween morning and they were harvesting romaine right outside my window.

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• Photo Gallery - Hired Hands
  Photo 1 and 7 are romaine harvest - other shots speak to the need for someone to do this work - hmmm? who will?
• Rainy Halloween Harvest
  options for buying art prints from above digital painting
• Robert Gumpert
  Field Work Photographs and some good information - worth checking out for sure

glimpse and earlier artwork yield another take at beauty and toil

Experimental Field - digital painting - Dan Beck - 2005

I haven’t written about this piece before, but only its counterpart. I broke my own rules with these pieces and ended up creating two works and accompanying art prints from one start - and thus find myself liking one more than the other.

I know the piece was some what of an outgrowth of the success I had with the digital painting Field Play.

In this case the figure’s clothing has color and detail - while the face remains rather simple. The main detail of the glimpse I saw - was the stretched out posture and movement of a particular individual harvesting romaine.

The abstractness of the fields is tied up in the nature of viewing while passing and in an attempt to create the kind of world of the previously mentioned piece.

This was designed to fill the 13 x 19″ watercolor sheet with minimal margins and will enlarge up to a 20 x 30″ image.

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• Experimental Field
  options for art prints
• Large Image
  Another artist’s watercolor of Romaine Harvest