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controlling what at first seems uncontrollable

My Series 12 - digital painting - original prints - Dan Beck 2004

Simple, colorful, expression - not much in the way of form - not much in terms of movement - but it does have a good feeling nevertheless.

This was not a particularly thoughtful piece. It came from following a concept of being on the cusp between representation and abstract as well as having the smooth colors atop the beige textured background.

Original art, original prints - this has my characteristic comfortable strokes of the mouse - unique to the way I move my hand and wrist - controlling what was seemingly uncontrollable at first.

As a musician, I had to learn how to hear some of the odd scales my fingers had learned how to play - in some ways - this abstract piece is about the same process with painting on the computer.

See Also

• Abstract Art Gallery - other digital paintings from “My Series” as well as other fluid, playful pieces
• Success Express To The Land Of Plenty - while looking for something on the lines of gaining control by being an observer - I found this interesting article
• Fate vs Free Will - again not exactly the angle I was looking for - but a way of integrating determinism and free will in a way I hadn’t really thought of - astrologically

simple but ambiguous

My Series 4 - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2005

This piece looks better to me than the last time I wrote about it.

I have written a number of times about how color is relative to its neighbor - just as art is relevant in relation to its context. So it should not be a surprise that the conditions of the viewer are probably just as big of a factor as the art itself.

Today it is calm out - overcast and mellow. I am sitting at a computer screen playing my own image roulette - because it is time to write even though my mind is on music.

Trying to keep things simpler - not adding more than is necessary - is a mantra right now - so the simpleness and directness of the above digital painting has more appeal than before. I love the smoothness of color on the textured background.

And for whatever reason, I find more than enough ambiguity to satisfy my imagination today.

See Also

• My Series 4 - art print options and availability for above digital painting
• Dream with Mantra - not sure if this is the artist’s real name or a persona - but always worth taking a look at other people’s art
• How to Change the World: Mantras Versus Missions - found this rather amusing - but also curious about the blog title - without reading much further - seems more about status quo than changing the world - but than again what isn’t?