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hugging the inhospitable mountains

More Warm Hills - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2005

Perhaps a bit more symmetrical than I might have done in hindsight (today’s topic), but a digital painting I still really like.

I am always fascinated by landscape which I know is not hospitable, but from a distance looks incredibly inviting. In a case like the warm hills above, those hills despite being a dry mess of weeds and grasses look like you would want to go roll on them or give them a hug.

That was the quality I was looking for -

With luck having said that you might see it that way as well if you didn’t already. 

Needless to say, an actual art print brings it home more. 

See Also

• More Warm Hills
  Availability of art prints for digital painting More Warm Hills
• Bear Mountain
  Even granite from a distance can look hospitible - click on image
• Leh’s Mountain
  Another cold mountain - but from distance somewhat warm

viewing and processing life - creatively

In my mind the three images above of digital paintings were created around the same time. Whether it is true or not, I am not going to research.

Promoting the Creative World is about observations particularly in regards to the creative process, but it is also observations about viewing and processing life. How could it not be?

Associations are more real than the way things happened. Our memories and how we categorize what we have experienced take on a life of their own - truth is they become our reality unless they are shattered. And many folks won’t budge from their reality even when confronted with facts.

There is no critique here; but just like "hindsight is 20/20" and "the older we get, the better we were" so much of what we perceive is wrapped up in our own perspective of the world - worth mentioning I think.

See Also

• Landscape Art Gallery
  where above pieces can all be found
• Hindsight Perspective
  How film and literature changes with plot information - further insight into how informed we are when we already know