March 9th, 2007 by Dan Beck
technology’s quirks yield frustration’s art
Palette Crap - digital painting - art prints - Dan Beck 2007
As a result of upgrading my Mac’s operating system to something more fashionably late, my painting program has new and improved quirks. This seems to be the norm for technology - as I think about all the various pieces of equipment (not restricted to computers) that have such little quirks - even the locks on my car - rather mechanical - but still.
So the above digital painting was born somewhat out of frustration - it was about being able to build new texture/colors and save the palettes. In my attempts to not have the program crash, I tried removing all sorts or things - getting it to work and systematically putting them back until it failed again.
But as the way with logic sometimes - my successes did not have to do with my interventions but something different I cannot see.
But I was able to have fun scribbling and did save some new palettes finding out if I saved the piece first I had a much better chance of success - and at least a couple of fun new digital paintings and accompanying art prints.
See Also
- Process - gallery piece about finding out how to paint with paint from a section of one’s own painting - part of my current struggle to be able to save
- FUMARE: And Now For Something Completely Different - one of my blog practices is to do searches for phrases which I have written in an article that I like - searching for “something different I cannot see” this I found interesting - even though it is not otherwise particularly related - barring perhaps the human factor in all technology
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October 17th, 2006 by admin
Technique, Language are vehicles - Intent is from Within
Fifth-Focus - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 1998
This is the fifth digital painting I created on the computer. I couldn’t control the mouse very well. I couldn’t control the opacity of the color or the palette for that matter.
Whatever I could grab that was already in the computer program - that is what I used.
It is both remarkable how much I have learned since then and also in some ways how little it matters.
When I finished this piece, I thought it was quite cool - I would have never dreamed of anything like that with conventional painting. But with this program this vibrant abstract somewhat three dimensional piece came to life.
No matter how big your vocabulary, you still have to say something with it.
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September 21st, 2006 by admin
dark enhances light and warmth - texture adds interest to simple color scheme
Sea of Backs - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2006
There are a number of things I like about how this digital painting came out. First off, there is a shading going on which implies a rather glowing source of light. I had wanted there to be the feeling of warmth - even though everyone is bundled up because that is how it is.
There is also an incredible texture going on in the fields themselves - a little more fabric-like than the way the fields look from a distance - but only a little.
I have been able to develop my palette in a new way which is giving me a broader texture range. It is on the border of being overdone here - but I think it really helps this piece hold together - particularly since there is really very little color here - except in the minute details.
Art prints of the above digital painting are available only by emailing: specialorders@outhousestudios.net.
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