Posts Tagged ‘original_art’
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
the mark of origin – cultural as well
If I were branding cattle, what would I want my brand to look like? Logos and brands are not exactly the same thing. But in the image at right, which I have taken to using as a brand on my artwork – is that kind of literal ‘burn on the cattle‘ kind of thing.
Since I only starting using it in the last month or two, it will not appear on all my art – though I can go add it for future printings of older digital paintings.
The brand has my initials – includes a musical note and/or 1 depending on how one reads – hints at ‘1danband‘ a musical name I use and also abstractly looks like a worker carrying a hoe – a common image of mine.
I have not yet decided on the name for my brand – not sure if it will be read as dB or d1B or if it even needs a name – but I like the identification in addition to my signature – it seems fun. It is also part of the double side of having work which is original art – but is also able to be produced in large multiples – and remarkably – art prints which will always be original prints.
See Also
- joomla – Your Logo is not your brand – discussion of the difference – pointing out that a brand is more about public perception rather than a stamped image
- Is My Logo a Brand? – another article defining the differences quite clearly
- Logo Pogo – this issue has been discussed by me as well – I don’t always follow the rules – even when they are my own rules
Tags: Art, Art Prints, digital painting, music, Original Art, original_art, painting, prints
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
community comes together
Wayward Bus – 60’s Album Art – Steinbeck Themed
In conjunction with the annual Steinbeck Festival and the 40th anniversary of the summer of love, Artistas Unidos – Artist United – is sponsoring a community event of album covers in this style.
All ages, aptitudes are encouraged – there are 50 businesses which have agreed to display work. John Steinbeck’s hometown is in process of becoming something new …
a place of art and community with real people and real character.
Since I live here in Salinas, CA – I like to participate in such events and encourage others to do similarly.
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- Current Call for Artists – Artistas Unidos – Artists United – grass roots non-profit communtiy arts organization in Salinas organizes a multitude of events for fun, culture, and revitalization of the community
- American Experience | Summer of Love | PBS – having seen this special – I am assuming website will provide some valuable information for those in particular who did not live through and those who don’t remember
- Original Art – can another period’s style and context still be considered original?
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
and original blue clouding
Blue Clouds at Evening – digital painting – Dan Beck 2007
Sticking with my theme of original art – I opted to come back to this piece. I don’t know that it will ever reach my all time favorites. In fact, when I saw the blue clouds that evening – I was more struck by the unusualness than the beauty.
Had this been part of an abstract color experiment – or some bizarre reference to a “blue period” – it might actually be more accessible.
But I think because the unreal was actually real – it makes the whole work a bit fanciful – even for myself – who saw the blue clouds that night … and never since, and never before.
So the image will probably always be unique and the original prints – though likely multiples – will always be as intended … and always original art prints.
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Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Forgotten Sketch Shows Its Colors
Sunset Sketch – digital painting / original prints – Dan Beck 2005
I had totally forgotten this painting – don’t remember creating it – don’t remember the evening it was inspired by – it had kind of slipped through the cracks.
This was a digital painting that had made it into the last round of pieces to go on the website end of 2005 – but didn’t get included. I went looking through all my original prints and came across this one and was quite taken with the way it looked so much like a tissue collage.
Perhaps a little too evenly balanced to be a really wonderful piece – it still has some magnificent qualities – the sun and clouds in particular and the texture in the vegetation on the horizon and the more detailed yet not exactly lettuce in the front.
I guess I do remember something – because it was romaine I was portraying but I would never have known that by just looking – it was a representation like most art – enough to evoke a feeling and a time but hopefully be its own original place to get lost inside.
See Also
- Experimental Field – notice how romaine lettuce was portrayed here – both more detailed and more abstract – it’s not easy being green
- Original Art – discussion of different meanings and understandings or what original art really is and isn’t
- Tissue Collage – a page filled with examples – no enlargements here but one can get enough of the idea of why this seems so reminiscent of the above work
Tags: Art, color, digital painting, Original Art, original_art, painting, prints, texture
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Thursday, June 14th, 2007
Maintaining freshness in method and approach
More Warm Hills – digital painting / art prints – Dan Beck 2005
The last digital painting – below – reminded me of this piece as well. Many artists can capture the illusion of 3 dimensionality in a 2 dimensional world. But I think I am like a little kid in this regard and am always pleased when a piece reads that way.
These are also foothills I suppose but not the same ones and I don’t believe the nearby mountains were that obvious. But the way the hills mound up together is a pretty cool land formation and as I have written elsewhere make one feel like you want to hug them.
The connection to yesterday is that the hills have a similar quality although achieved in a different way. Original art – my subject these days – is in many ways an oxymoron (since everything comes from somewhere else) but then again – creating a piece should ideally always feel new to the artist – and as an outcome to the viewer as well.
See Also
More Warm Hills – availability of art prints for above digital painting
About Art Prints – discussion of different types of prints and print surfaces and how broad a term this really is
OxymoronList.com – pretty much the long and short of it all – fun work getting through it – original art is a little too subtle for the list but original copy made it…
Tags: Art, Art Prints, hills, mountains, Original Art, original_art, painting, prints
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
art builds upon itself
Foothills Anywhere – digital painting – Dan Beck 2007
When I started this painting I was thinking somewhat of the article I had written yesterday and the featured digital painting.
I was thinking about the character of the foothills – not just the Santa Lucia’s but the Rockies as well. I worked on a farm in the foothills of the Rockies in Colorado and the character and impression it made was quite similar.
I had fun with the colors and tried to work boldly and quickly – knowing that part of the results are contingent upon that.
But original like original art will always remain an illusive concept – because there so obviously isn’t any such thing. Even if one borrowed from no one other than oneself – art would still build upon itself.
In truth, we can’t even work in our own vacuum as we are our own audience as well.
See Also
- More Color Than Typical – guess you can tell this is by the same artist too
- Original Prints – no matter how original a piece is or isn’t – prints are always originals at Outhouse Studios
- Transpo Man Photo Blog – I really like the way he set up this notebook – lots of fun – feels like you are flipping pages
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Santa Lucia Impression – digital painting / art prints – 2005
As I continue to write about different aspects of original art, I keep trying to feature digital paintings which are either brand new or archetypal or both.
When I finished this piece, I wasn’t sure about it – but a couple of artist friends were. They knew I had captured something dramatic, bold, and special.
It is definitely original in that sense – my attempts to create something with a similar flow – Feeling of Rain and Tall Side Mountains were not nearly as dramatic.
I have done plenty of other bold pieces – ones in which I worked fast used deep colors – but the above piece does both so well – plus there was this element of chance in the way the fog came out – that I am not sure I could repeat even if I wanted.
To me – good original artwork – is not easily followed – even by the same artist.
See Also
- Santa Lucia Impression – art print options and availabilty for original prints of above digital painting
- Visionary Art – the art might be a little more interior design oriented than fine – but I like the concept – particularly the printing surfaces. Searched for “good original artwork” figuring on finding pretentious – some links lead me here
- What’s Visionary Art? – compare definition and website of American Visionary Art Museum – another original difference
Tags: Art, color, digital painting, mountains, Original Art, original_art, painting, prints
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
approaching the vast task at hand
Field Phlat – digital painting / art prints – Dan Beck 2006
The fields seem like they go on forever. Imagine the feeling of having to pick all those fields – imagine a world which seems to intertwine with your body itself.
Imagine both the magnitude of harvesting out of necessity and both the importance and smallness felt all at the same time.
Though my world is nothing like the strawberry pickers, I identify with this figure. His world is vast, beautiful and seemingly endless. His task is not ever fulfilled by himself but he must nevertheless start the process.
He is in pause – from beauty, from vastness, from being overwhelmed, by just the humbling nature of where to begin.
It is in our nature to work the impossible…
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
not hours, but understanding and experience
Color Crossings – digital painting – original prints – Dan Beck 2007
I don’t usually think about how long it takes to create a piece, but I started this digital painting this morning and am printing as I write and just finished uploading the images to website.
It took six hours to paint this – I don’t know exactly where that stands. It would be little for most oil painters – a lot for many, but certainly not all watercolorists; and probably about right for me.
As a rule, I generally complete a piece in two sittings – I like having two perspectives on a piece. But today, I felt comfortable and confident as I rolled the hills and rowed the crop fields.
This original painting has a depth and a material warmth that feels good to me and it is also a bit over the top with the mountains and sky in the background.
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Friday, June 8th, 2007
archetypal, fresh, world of its own – intentional multiple prints
Salinas Valley 1 – digital painting – original prints – Dan Beck 2003
Much of my current writing focus is about the distinctions of original art. Though this is not all that recent of a piece, I felt and still feel that I hit an original note or interpretation when I created this digital painting.
I had never treated the row crops in such a fashion and had never treated the undulating crisscrossing fields in such a fashion. It is geometric, openly computeristic, but playful, childlike and strong.
It is its own world – but it also conjures up the Salinas Valley. There is nowhere else I have been which has this feeling. It is special because it does that – but perhaps too fantastical to those who have not been here.
Nevertheless, it was original at the time – remains original as the archetype – and each of its art prints is original.
For a long time, it was also the first image one would see on the Outhouse Studios website and therefore remains in the above header banner.
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Tags: Art, digital painting, fields, Original Art, original_art, painting, prints, Salinas Valley
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