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art prints from digital painting - quality and feeling

Sunlit Under Mountain - digital painting / art prints - DB 2005

There is a phenomena here when the sky is completely overcast. In the distance, the mountains frequently show signs of isolated sunlight. It almost looks like it is coming out of the mountainside itself rather than a break in the clouds.

Like many of these pieces, I question my ability to portray what is really going on. Despite this - the digital painting seen here has a quality and feeling to it that does capture this type of weather and time of day.

To me, art would not be art if it were literally trying to duplicate nature. Putting three dimensions into two or rendering a 3-D sculpture which is relatively unchanging - cannot do justice to being in the scene.

On the other hand, an artist can portray more by revealing his eyes, understanding, feeling, and interpretation.

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• Sunlit Under Mountains
  availabiltiy of art prints for digital painting Sunlit Under Mountains
• Art Essays
  Printmakering synopsizes essays by Tolstoy, Hegel, Wittgenstein, and Maritain
• Esthetics - Art
  Continuing the philosophy day theme - more espousing of why

similarities in nature are evident in interpretation

Here 2 There - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2003

I like that the hills and fields look like waves. Nature does mimic itself in many ways as do people.

Whether it is us connecting the dots or the connections are already there to begin with - doesn’t really matter to me - for I find it impossible to see without making them.

In this case, creating the hills with wavelike undulations was not all that conscious - it was about trying to represent them in a new way and also take advantage of what was then a new capability - texture.

As an art print, it really catapults from what’s above - the enlargement, of course, helps to imagine how peaceful the sky looks and how inviting the valley and mountains are past the hills.

See Also

• Here 2 There
  Availability of art prints for digital painting Here 2 There
• Ecology of San Francisco - Sand Dunes
  Interesting history - Photo shows how dunes mimic way ocean looks
• Guilin 5 - China Tour
  A number of photos demonstrating how nature mimics itself

Classical Music & Web Design for Monterey Bay Symphony

Monterey Bay Symphony - Concert and Logo Overlap

Sometimes being creative is about other people. Playing classical music is an example of that type of creativity. The music is someone else’s, but tone and interpretation lie in the hands of the musicians and conductor.

My diversion today is because I just completed a website for MBS.  They are a non-profit organization and my work was a gift because I am grateful to have an orchestra in our area that plays free concerts open to everyone.

The website is missing a couple of key informational things at this point - but the format, look, and navigation is what I brought to the table.

I am particularly pleased with using their logo for the navigation system - hopefully others will want to click it as much as it makes me want to.

Creativity being about other people applies to web design too - for it is someone else’s words, images, and intent that one is being creative about getting across.

See Also

• Monterey Bay Symphony
  newly (outhouses studios designed) website for area symphony
• Salinas Californian
  information about recent free to all public concert
• Music at Outhouse Studios
  protocol says I must link to own site - there are classical influences in own music

berrying the theme of harvest and bent backs

Pick Aside - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2006

This is the last digital painting I created - one of many with the strawberry picking theme. I am beginning to feel like I am berrying the theme into the ground.

On the other hand,  I see workers daily out in the fields close to me and far away. This was not based so much on what I actually saw, but more of an interpretation of what I had been seeing.

I wanted the viewer to feel like he was out in the fields with these two. I wanted the fields to feel like they were swallowing everyone up - that despite the depth and height of the rows - there is still a bent back to harvest with.

For art prints of above digital painting:  Pick Aside - please email: specialorders@outhousestudios.net.

See Also

• Figures Art Gallery
  most similar work on website proper
• cbs5.com - Harvest of Dreams
  Nice story of bent back harvester straightening up (so to speak)