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Quick Study 0 - digital painting - Dan Beck 2007

Thought I would break the ice with this new blog category by sharing the precursor to the last digital painting I was able to blog about. I got to the point above and thought the piece might be complete.

Declaring a piece finished is no different for the digital medium than any other - but I have found that with digital art, I can create and save a number of different endings.

What struck me about the above stopping point was how pleasing the textures looked and how balanced in the degree it was worked.

The rawness reminds me of a woodblock print or a monoprint. And though I wasn’t done, I like the way this piece looks and feels - enough so to save and share.

See Also

• Beach Today - piece I am reminded of with a somewhat similar feel
• Major Genres: Beauties, Actors, and Landscapes - The Floating World of Ukiyo-e (Library of Congress) - a website filled with examples of woodblock prints
• Feast from the East - a recent review on show which included woodblock prints - two examples

Like lithograph, serigraph and etchings but no degradation

Below is the "Returned Response" to the email question below or found at Digital Art Question.

Hi Roger,

Thank you for the note.

There is original as in the case of a monoprint and then there is original as in the case of a lithograph, serigraph, etching or I suppose even an artist guided giclée (even though it wasn’t necessarily designed with that intent).

Digital art prints fall into the latter category. I do know one person who does digital work and prints without saving - but to me that is a waste of the medium.

Part of the beauty for me is that it is a way of potentially mass producing original works.

Having said that, I do limit my larger sizes to just 10 pieces - following the fine art photography guidelines which I got from a gallery in San Francisco - but somehow I think this is new territory and there are no real rules yet.

There are definitely difficulties in the language in a lot of areas; for instance I don’t view my work as being generated by a computer in any fashion - powered perhaps.

But I think a lot of this is semantics - finding the right way to explain what one is doing takes practice and experimentation.

I hope what I have said is of some help. Thanks again for your interest.

All the best,

Dan Beck
danbeck@outhousestudios.net
http://www.outhousestudios.net

See Also

• Poster Art Prints Evolve - innovative, digital, original
  Outhouse Studios explanation of original digital art prints
• The True Story of Giclée
  History and different take - slightly commercial but explanative