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Another Perspective on Strawberry Flat Racing

Field Run - original digital art - Dan Beck 2007

I decided I wanted another take on the Flat Racing. I really enjoyed being a witness, but I also wasn’t sure I had said all there was to say on the subject.

The first version and digital painting captured the movement quite well, but the scene around was rather abstract and unknown. Here I have tried to give more of the perspective of looking up the rows of the strawberry fields.

This is a more detailed version of what I had seen. I am not sure if I like it more or less, but it required more time to play with it and more time to convey another aspect … that the other workers weren’t even paying attention to the race of strawberries right next to them.

I often talk of perspective and understanding - both of these takes on the same scene are original art and a unique view - they are just coming from a different perspective albeit both are mine.

See Also

• Related Artwork - some related digital paintings that are set up for purchase of original prints
• A Different Perspective - good article about looking at the positive in life
• A Different Perspective - Dada without Duchamp - for the art historian who really does want to grapple with the questions of original art

original flat racing witness

Flat Racing - original digital art -Dan Beck 2007

Always a good feeling to create a work of art which not only captures what you are trying to communicate, but feels like it is original art - particularly in the sense of standing apart from other peoples’ work.

Not sure which day, yesterday or the day before, that I saw the three workers running with their flats - not so much a competition since they clearly had not started running from the same place - but they were boogieing up the rows of berries. Don’t know if it was a pick and run event or just an impromptu breaking up the monotony of the day.

I don’t think I would personally last too long out there picking berries - long hours bent over picking - but this looked more like a fun race rather than the piece work shuffle. This was camaraderie not rushing to get paid.

I am glad I got to witness the strawberry flat racing - it lifted my spirits too.

See Also

• Base of the Mountain - another light look at strawberry picking - but more the way it looked than the way it is
• Strawberry Ricotta Fool - not sure how my parallel searching arrived here - but just makes you think how far a distance from field to table

original digital art - pigment prints

Original Article Black & White Vision

Original Article Colorized Vision

I find I can’t help mocking the whole concept of original art. This is obviously the same digital painting - but one has color and one doesn’t. In this case, the color wasn’t removed but added - yet they are both original.

They are also both original creations by the artist - separate files and master images. Each print is also an original because that is how they were intended - to be printed. I wouldn’t dream of hanging a monitor and it doesn’t look as good as printed at the right size.

But here again is the rub - digital doesn’t necessarily have a right size and the prints don’t have a right term. Art prints sound too much like a reproduction - giclee does as well. Pigment print I saw recently at the de Young - and as much as I like that term - it doesn’t have the power of etching or lithograph.

New mediums use a different language to create and perhaps communicate, but also require a new language to be accepted.

See Also

• Image Guide 1 to Blogsite - not only can I find previous articles by a thumbnail digital image - but so can you - - not always completely up to date but still
• More About Giclee and Pigment Prints - to my point that such technology is mostly used for reproductions albeit excellent ones
• de Young Exhibition - Guise: Recent Prints by Deborah Oropallo - though there is explanation about how these wonderful fun images were created - just “pigment prints” were used to define the actual pieces in the show