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Nestling Grape Rows - digital painting / original prints - Dan Beck - 2005

As with many paintings, my feeling about this piece originally is not the same as it has come to be. Often one is either more ecstatic about the results or even more humdrum about the results.

It is a very clear to me the importance of audience and artistic climate. When one of my original prints is well received by other artists, other viewers - it is not difficult to change my view on the work.

When a piece is not well received; what was successful may remain - but it is more difficult to hang on to. In the digital painting above, I liked the 3 dimensionality in particular, the texture, and the way the composition itself tends to push the grapes and mountains together.

The subject matter has been tackled by me and will be again - but the strength in this particular interpretation has the uniqueness we tend to look for in original art.

See Also

• Impressionist Art Gallery - gallery the above digital painting is found in and a good glimpse of works from a glimpse
• Andorra & France - someone’s trip to France - had a really nice photo of grapes (as much in the mountains or more) than my rendition - and the rest is just a recording - I assume for friends and family - which I am neither - but what a wonderful trip they seemed to have had
• Photos - same kind of thing - snapshots of a trip from someone I don’t know - but the photo of grapes in the mountains near Exeter, CA and the two countryside photos of Lindsay are worth looking at - and maybe more just to get a sense of the area

same figures differently

Air Hoe 1 - digital painting 4 original art prints - Dan Beck 2007

This was the first of three Air Hoe images which used the same figure. I changed my template to accommodate my new printing dimensions better. I have done some upgrades to my painting computer and have improved color in print outs where I didn’t think it was possible, but must print now with larger margins - so I am rethinking how I will offer these digital paintings as art prints.

I accidentally created this figure in the old sized template - so I copied and pasted into three different paintings that were on the new sized template. This is not the way I normally work - but that is part of the fun of it.

Digital opens up lots of new possibilities - some of course good - some less. Setting limits, and creating and changing the rules as I good is also part of the fun.

This particular piece, like the second was influenced by an exhibit at SFMOMA which I saw a few days prior to this painting.

Despite that, it is my twist.

See Also

• Figures Art Gallery - for lack of a better link to website - check some other images from 2005/6 which figure in
• SFMOMA - always worth a look - wonderful museum - even the gift shop was surprisingly fun
• Digital Possibilities - I liked this phrase and googled it - the most interesting and pertinent result I found in the time I allotted myself to look - not exactly the same thinking but worth a gander at the changing landscape

successful does not mean wanting to live with

Enlarge - Cloud Cover - Digital Painting 2006- Dan Beck

I keep trying to look at the positives in having to move my website. On the blog alone, there is a year’s worth of links to my site - including images - which don’t usually link - because every image and page is case specific with my new web-host’s server.

So one of the bright sides is getting to revisit pieces when I get the link working. The above digital painting is such a piece.

Interesting when I wrote about this piece before, I commented on how non-real so much of it was even though it captured the feeling of the scene.

Today I think how real it is - how successful it was - and yet still probably not a piece that too many would want to live with … I mean who really wants to have a rainy day on their wall - unless perhaps one lives in the arid desert.

For any desert folks looking for art prints of above digital painting, please email: specialorders@outhousestudios.net.

See Also

• Impressionist Art Gallery
  Most similar work on website can be found here
• Desert Diary, 2 Dec 2002–Winter Precipitation
  Rain on the Desert
• Rain on the Navajo Desert
  thought this was pretty cool - nothing like searching by writing

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