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Composite Colors and Winter Abstraction

elements of a literal time

Winter Colors - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2006

Winter Colors - digital painting /art prints - Dan Beck 2006

Despite the symmetry of the mountain peak in the center, I still enjoy the feeling of this piece.

The colors are true to winter here, but the curving strips over the land creating a mounded look are from who knows where.

I think I was working towards a more finished look but opted to quit before I got there. Sometimes one likes a stage enough to stop there - I am assuming that is what happened here.

The look is a bit uncharacteristic - though my style typically includes abstract elements.  A digital painting of mine that is this worked is usually more literal. But then again this was more of a composite - pulling the man holding the dirt out of some former memory.

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Colors of Winter

capturing the blues and browns - the hurdles of painting after a break

Winter Colors - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2006

Winter Colors - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2006

This is my first painting in quite some time - a few weeks anyway. It is fascinating how the urge to create works.

On the one hand, one feels a kind of craving than is difficult to describe - but then for lack of practice - it feels enormous just to get started.

Deciding what to paint or what size - all these things seem big. Being creative like most things is about striking a balance - being relaxed enough to not care about mistakes - but still be able to create with the importance a piece deserves.

To create this digital painting, I drew from things I have been seeing over the last few weeks.  Today, it is not the piece I thought it was yesterday - but it has captured the blues and browns of winter in the Salinas Valley.

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