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Tehachapi - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2005

When I finished this piece and first wrote about it in December, it was not included in any of the galleries on the website.

Like many of the digital paintings written about on the blogsite - purchasing could only be done by emailing a special request - setting up items for sale is a tad cumbersome.

This piece has continued to be a favorite for me - I find it pleasing, vast, and a bit ambiguous as to what is going on … but that is how it was looking out over the mountain. I really couldn’t completely comprehend what I was seeing and yet it looked amazing.

This is impressionistic not just in style - but in that it was created from an impression from memory - at least a week after viewing and without photographic help.

See Also

• Tehachapi
  availability of art prints from above digital painting
• Tehachapi
  someone’s photo gallery - includes a number of shots which seem to reinforce my impression

Creating from Impression, Communicating a Feeling

Tehachapi - Dan Beck -Digital Painting 2005 
Art Prints available by request only.

Over Thanksgiving, I had the wonderful opportuntity of driving from Salinas, CA to Phoenix, AZ and back. It was wonderful in that we were able to take a lot of old route 66 and see some incredible sights - so many in fact, that retaining them was next to impossible.

I like cameras and photography, but I prefer to not put the camera’s view in between what I see and what I create. It is just my way. 

The scene above, was the last truly compelling thing I witnessed (although not route 66)- coming down Tehachapi mountain with the sun setting and the vast view and some other world zigzag hill mountains that I couldn’t quite encode properly.

I have no photos of my own - and so far haven’t found the right area on the net, but that is not what this is about.

I am interested in communicating a feeling - a feeling of vastness, beauty, awe, color, and maybe my own smallness.

See Also

• Tehachapi Loop Photo Tour
  Get an idea of terrain and vastness - click photos
• CalPhotos - Berkeley Digital Library Project
  2 Photos of Tehachapi - right one has similar terrain