January 2nd, 2006 by admin
dansingnew - fresh, life, start, joy and transition
Original Size Art - dansingnew - Dec 2005 - available for purchase soon. Please listen to Clip.
Having created this CD cover and digital painting on the computer using a mouse per usual, I have been pleased that so many people who know both myself and Trish - say how much it captures us.
Capturing a likeness isn’t a sure thing. Many times an artist feels he has captured the essence, yet very few, if any see it.
I used no photos to refer to or even start with, but I am pleased with the results. Our postures, the way we are holding hands, and the look on our faces grabs ahold of something essential.
I don’t know exactly how I pulled it off or even sure that I could routinely - but it does somehow capture us. Since so much of the music is about us and the play on words of dansingnew - what a totally appropriate cd cover and actually better than I expected it to come out.
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December 27th, 2005 by admin
Inspiration, Intended Feeling, Results
Feeling of Rain - Digital Painting 2005
Inspiration can come from anywhere, from a thought, a sight, a sound, any sensation at all. Well in this case, the winter rains have started here. The "storms" here become the STORMS of anywhere East of here.
Storms here are rain and wind, but they still feel like a storm in comparison, even though I know better having lived in the Midwest and on the East Coast most of my life.
In any event, the piece above is about the feeling. It does look at the cloud and mountain scene to grab the feeling, but it is intended to be something more than a grasp at reality.
Lighter than snow, and clearer than fog - whether it works or not is up to the observer; but for me I am quite satisfied with it. The results have the feeling I was looking for and that is probably even more important.
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December 3rd, 2005 by admin
Creating from Impression, Communicating a Feeling
Tehachapi - Dan Beck -Digital Painting 2005
Art Prints available by request only.
Over Thanksgiving, I had the wonderful opportuntity of driving from Salinas, CA to Phoenix, AZ and back. It was wonderful in that we were able to take a lot of old route 66 and see some incredible sights - so many in fact, that retaining them was next to impossible.
I like cameras and photography, but I prefer to not put the camera’s view in between what I see and what I create. It is just my way.
The scene above, was the last truly compelling thing I witnessed (although not route 66)- coming down Tehachapi mountain with the sun setting and the vast view and some other world zigzag hill mountains that I couldn’t quite encode properly.
I have no photos of my own - and so far haven’t found the right area on the net, but that is not what this is about.
I am interested in communicating a feeling - a feeling of vastness, beauty, awe, color, and maybe my own smallness.
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October 24th, 2005 by admin
Art from Concept
Above is an image of a very recent work entitled "Experimental Fields". It came about in a slightly different way. I was creating a piece which I was in the middle of and felt the urge to put plastic over a section of the fields.
Plastic has been all around me these days. It is used to cover strawberry fields in the making and then methyl bromide is pumped into the soil as a fumigant. Methyl Bromide has been banned for its ozone depleting qualities but the timeline keeps getting extended. Unfortunately, it also has health depleting qualities as well.
There is lots of documentation, but safe levels aren’t clear; and I personally suffered a great deal of dizziness (enough that I thought I needed a hospital) that I have become convinced was caused by exposure from having ruled everything else out.
It is never my intention to directly copy any other artist; that is just the way I work. However, I do see other artists in my own work. I find the same thing to be the case in music and certainly others might see influences which I was unaware.
In looking at the first piece, I was reminded oddly of Henri Rousseau, not because of style, but the way he would have animals hidden in the fields.
From the aspect of creating from a concept, I am naturally drawn to Christo and his huge installations - particularly given the plastic theme.
There are countless others who create from a concept. In fact, I think one would be hard pressed to find art that doen’t draw on a concept to some degree. Representation by its nature is conceptual - but then again, I arrived at the piece above in a way that was different from the normal way I work.
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