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Here 2 There - digital painting / original prints - Dan Beck 2003

When I finished this digital painting a few years ago, I thought it was the cat’s meow. Textures were fairly new to me and I was pretty ecstatic about the stone quality in the mountains, the rocky dirt quality to the plowed fields and the other worldly quality of the rolling hills or fields.

Plus, there is a wave like quality to the foreground fields which I have never done in quite such an obvious manner since. I have always loved the way nature mimics itself - evidenced in O’keefe’s flowers.

I wasn’t thinking about making the hills look like waves - but they do sometimes - I just enhanced it by allowing for it to come through in the process of creating.

See Also

• Original Art - the current connection, motivation for articles in weblog
• artst | Georgia O’keefe Gallery - not the official site - but many good images for quickly viewing the connection and perhaps some of the artist’s understanding
• Human Flower Project - an interesting show that was - plus good explanation of what might not be obvious to everyone

more or less of reality can still capture feeling

Foothill Views - Digital Painting / Art Prints -2005

Well once I again, I am writing about a piece I have thoroughly discussed.

I write because I stumbled upon it today. I write because there is always something more to be said about a painting I like - and particularly one I like and created.

The rows are less perfect than the rows of reality. The patchwork is more blanket-like than the quilted hills themselves. The characters are more animated than the guys riding the tractor that day. My eye rolls up and down the hills even more than with the actual panorama.

But in two dimensions and a much smaller window - I have captured enough of the feeling of the area to enjoy being inside the painting.

I hope you are able to as well.

See Also

• Foothill Views - art print options for above digital painting
• Lure of the West / Rolling Hills - I have a piece by this same name but I included this link today because the image came up in an image search for “quilted hills” and I particularly liked the painting - the site has other interesting pieces as well
• Accidental Landscapes - forgot that I might actually find “quilted” hills in my searching - a lot of these are quite fun