Posts Tagged ‘perspective’
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
personal perspective expressed in painting
Foothills Terrain – digital painting – Dan Beck 2006
I have found myself painting quite a bit over the last week. Inspiration and acting upon it are topics I keep coming back to – because I think it is lot of what I need to share.
Someone recently said to me that she had seen work by all these talented people (she included me – thank you) and it made her feel like she had none.
I understand that feeling – there are countless artists who leave me in the dust technically and conceptually and many musicians who make me feel like a hack.
But I have more than enough vocabulary to communicate and no one else can see from my perspective. And this is true for all creative beings.
As for the above scene – I had to do something to express what I had experienced. This area is incredible, no
photo or painting can do it justice, but I did succeed in giving it depth, form, and feeling.
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Tags: Art, hills, mountains, music, painting, perspective, prints
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Saturday, June 10th, 2006
Adding color and texture – one thing leads to another
Window View – digital painting / art prints – Dan Beck 2006
In some ways I like the simplicity of yesterday’s start. At the small size like directly above – the even simpler digital painting seems to work better for me. However, when it is printed at 13 x 19″ or larger, it needs the extra detail to look like a finished art print.
Nevertheless, I tried to maintain the simplicity which I liked so much in the first place. I added color to make it more like wading in the fields, rather than wading in the water.
I added texture and additional color to make the fields themselves be of interest. In doing so, everything else – mountains and figures had to have comparable weight – meaning they required additional texture and color for the piece to hold together.
This is why it is so difficult to stop a piece at the right time – one thing leads to another and you have to add this which means adding that – and before you know it, the character of the piece has changed…
but at least you have enjoyed the process.
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Tags: Art, color, fields, mountains, painting, perspective, prints, strawberry, texture
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Friday, June 2nd, 2006
remembering water, sky and evening light
Seafogged – digital painting – Dan Beck – 2005
Because I referred to this piece in a previous article today, I thought it would be a good idea to write about it.
The digital painting is from last year and is in some ways a one of a kind. I think I just haven’t been spending enough time at the beach. Or perhaps I am not finding it directly inspiring when I do go.
This particular time I remember the hole in the sky, I remember the foam on the water, I remember the peaceful light as the fog engulfed all of us who were walking that day.
I also remember feeling like I hooked the piece, that I had captured the evening, that I had used the medium and found the language to express something inexpressible.
I have seen and shown the work printed and framed 24×30″, but I believe the optimum size art print is even a tad bit larger.
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Friday, June 2nd, 2006
falls, perspective, and water under the bridge
Under Bridge Falls – digital painting – Dan Beck -2006
Getting away – going on vacation – these are wonderful things. If one wants to stay creative, it is really valuable to get a change of perspective from time to time.
I just came back from a week in upstate New York. This is one of the views that stayed with me. I found the perspective of looking almost directly up the waterfalls and out through the bridge a first for me.
Though there are photographs available of this particular scene, I did not use them to paint this. As a rule, I don’t like to use photographs as an aid. For me, I would rather rely on my own impressions and bring in my own memory and biases.
I think art is about communication and it is my goal to communicate to the extent I can what I might feel and see – about a scene.
As always with a new work – if you have interest in purchasing an original art print, please email specialorders@outhousestudios.net.
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
despite or because of dual perspective piece carries correct feeling
Field 2 Mount – digital painting and art prints – 2005
Cycling through some of my various pieces, I felt that this one should be featured. Part of this piece’s failure is also its beauty. Something I frequently like is the cusp between ugly and beautiful – or reading things in different ways because there is cause for duality.
What I am talking about in the above piece is that the dirt rows, which were the focus of this piece, look at a glance like they are cut into the mountain – but then they also look like they lead up to a precipice.
The perspective may be a little tricky in this work, but the mounded dirt and the mountain behind work exactly right. If you are familiar with this land you know. And if not, it doesn’t matter – there is something pleasing here and with luck a feeling which transcends having experienced the area or not.
It is also a piece which works in a wide range of art print sizes.
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Monday, May 1st, 2006
Musical conversations are portrayed visually
All That Jazz – digital painting – 2006 – Dan Beck
I love music – if you’ve been on my site, you might have noticed, I write music and play a number of instruments.
There are many similarities in the creative processes for music and for art. They are there even when one is not taking on such an obvious reference to the other – as in the above.
When I created the above piece, I put on some jazz and referenced instruments I was hearing and the kind of interplay that the instruments might have. I could probably make it out to be more thoughtful than it was – but in truth I didn’t think that much.
Having said that, I am well aware of my own education in jazz and music. Improvisational music is a conversation – not an idea I invented – but it is. The vocabulary changes with musician and background – but it is about listening, conversing and offers one’s take or perspective.
As a brand new piece – All That Jazz has not yet been set up with a way to purchase the original art prints – please send inquiries to specialorders@outhousestudios.net .
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Keep Moving to stay in the Creative Flow
Irrigate 2 Field 2 Mount Beyond the Ivy Fence
The entire PDF document "On Being Creative" can be downloaded free at outhousestudios.net.
Keep Moving – If you find yourself stuck in a certain area, try not to languish over it. Move on to an area you can work on and come back to it.
There is a flow to creating and one needs to stay inside that flow, or the process and the creativity bog down.
Those trouble spots tend to get solved easier as the other parts come into being. Sometimes they even gracefully eliminate themselves.
I can’t say that I remember getting stuck in any of the above pieces, though I am not immune. And it is common for anyone creating to step back, give the work some time, and come back to it fresh.
The concept of keeping moving is more about not working something over and over and over trying to get it just so … and becoming frustrated. Frustration, though not uncommon in the creative process, is not the ideal creative partner.
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Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Perspective, peripheral vision and painting combine for archival art prints
Longfield – Digital Painting & Art Print – 2005
The perspective in this piece is not particularly tricky, but it works well. Your eye can’t help but move back towards the right corner while taking in the mountains almost as though they were in your peripheral vision.
This was a glance, I was driving – I could only look back quickly. As a result I suppose the way I chose to represent the fields and the accompanying texture was much looser.
From a printing standpoint, I must confess I have only printed this as large as the in-house printer allows but the results were excellent and as you can get a sense from the details of the piece – it will be that much better larger.
These works are printed using archival inks. The image was painted on the computer and each print is an original art print…exactly as it was intended.
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- Art Print Options for Longfield
Gallery page – enlarge/details – also should lead to different sizes of art prints, framed or not, flexibiltiy in original work
- Archival-Prints
Offers info about quality of printing used at Outhouse Studios as well
Tags: Art, fields, mountains, painting, perspective, prints, texture
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Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Limitations are Part of our Uniqueness – our Creativity
If one chooses there is a downloadable file at Outhouse Studios by following the "Free Downloads" link. The PDF document entitled "On Being Creative" has ten observations/suggestions/tips for being more creative and essentially feeling more alive. The first follows:
Accept limitations as a blessing.
Our limits allow us to be unique and individual – the limit of standing inside our own perspective is itself a part of what gives our individual stamp to a work.
Though we need enough vocabulary in any field to allow us the range of communication, our limits provide us with our uniqueness. In some cases, our physical limitations are what play a big roll in our creative work.
Relish these differences, they are specific to each of us.
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Tags: Art, creativity, mountains, perspective, Salinas Valley
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Monday, March 20th, 2006
Seeing, Understanding, Communicating, Feeling
More Warm Hills – Gallery Page - Digital Painting 2005
Often I write about trying to convey a feeling in a painting. Often I write about how seeing is completely wrapped up in understanding – how communicating what one sees is about communicating what one is experiencing.
At least for me – that is my interest and focus. When I observe, I am happy and accepting of my being in the picture – I am not a theoretical scientific observer – and frankly don’t think such a thing exists in people – for that matter even in science – but that is another story.
This piece conjures up this discussion because it was all about communicating the feeling these warm hills evoke. They make you want to reach out and hug them – even though you know they aren’t really like that. Perception and understanding confuse each other here – but then that is part of the magic. You see this world which you know to be rough and scraggly – but from your perspective you can’t help but want to wrap your arms around it – if it were possible.
More Warm hills is about that feeling.
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