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

When I finished this digital painting a few years ago, I thought it was the cat’s meow. Textures were fairly new to me and I was pretty ecstatic about the stone quality in the mountains, the rocky dirt quality to the plowed fields and the other worldly quality of the rolling hills or fields.

Plus, there is a wave like quality to the foreground fields which I have never done in quite such an obvious manner since. I have always loved the way nature mimics itself - evidenced in O’keefe’s flowers.

I wasn’t thinking about making the hills look like waves - but they do sometimes - I just enhanced it by allowing for it to come through in the process of creating.

See Also

• Original Art - the current connection, motivation for articles in weblog
• artst | Georgia O’keefe Gallery - not the official site - but many good images for quickly viewing the connection and perhaps some of the artist’s understanding
• Human Flower Project - an interesting show that was - plus good explanation of what might not be obvious to everyone