Warm Pastures - A Minimalist Digital Painting
Warm Pastures
Here's another piece I created on Art Rage.
I called it "Warm Pastures":
The Inspiration For This
I am always interested in how certain concepts are represented in our minds. How far can a particular image or object be simplified before it loses it's meaning?
I wanted this to be an exercise in minimalism. Recently I have been a little bit obsessed with warm earthy tones and I wanted to create a minimalist sunset landscape.
The question is has it gone too far? Does any landscape remain here or is it too simplified?
As always feel free to use it in your own posts if you can find a use for it.
How It Was Created
It was created on my my Mac using ARTRAGE and a Wacom tablet.
(This is an app I particularly like because it simulates the textures and feel of real brushes and other media without being overly complicated.)
Amazing artwork. I can really appreciate this kind of work. When I see this I see a desert in a 'Prince of Persia' kind of way! Really like it!
When you are minimalistic you often get a better picture for yourself because everyone gets it in his or her own way. Thus it's not just one piece of art but many more!
Thank you. Yes a lot of people see a desert:) . That is one of the things I love about minimalism.
Indeed! Or a sunset is also possible. Minimalism is really a piece of art and can be hard to do. You have to do so much with so little. You artwork is spot on in my opinion! Looking forward to the next one!
You are too kind!
Looks like a beautiful sunset.
Thanks that is what I was trying to create :)
Succeed! 😊👍🏻
It surely is simple and minimalistic but that is how the most beautiful stuff emerges. Not masked by any impurities or flaws.
Looking at it, it makes me think of the beach with a hazy orange sky as the sun begins to set, so I can feel the warm vibe it is evoking.
Another beautiful piece of digital art! (Although it looks so real haha)
Thanks so much!
Thank you for introducing me to ArtRage. I've just posted my first piece. Gonna try and make it a regular thing to see how I improve over time!
Excellent:)
I personally think the absence of excessive imagery makes a powerful presentation of the piece. It reminds me of so many pieces I have seen it art college that actually got a lot of credit even though they initially looked simple and minimalist in presence. I appreciate all kinds of art, including stuff that is hard to comment on when first taking a glance at it. History has all sorts of artists and time period that are filled with this kind of art that I am referring to, so don't think that you are alone with a simple piece of art in time or in quality. Your post makes a strong presence regardless of what some people may say about simplicity. Give yourself a pat on the back, buddy!
Thank you so much for your kind words:)
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Thank you!
minimalism has its limits and not just in visual art - think Hemingway, and his sparse and stark sentences. In prose, it becomes staccato, which is fine if you're a war journalist writing about the incessant chatter of machine guns. Yeah, I think that's what happened to Hemingway...
but to return to visual art, abstraction leaves out connections - that's literally what it means - it's taken out of context, and sometimes the-thing-in-itself has an austere beauty that reminds us of something else - a sunset, or a lanndsacpe. Henry Moore in his sculptures experimented in pure form. When the city of Toronto placed his sculpture in the city hall square people were enraged. They kept asking, :"What is it?" ha ha ... they probably should have asked "How is it?" They were seeing it as a content rather than an expression of pure form. You come close to this by focussing on colour and texture apart from context. But art always forces us to look at things in a novel way a , so warm pastures may connote a pastoral setting or it may evoke a mood of blissful serenity. And I think the latter explanation comes closest to its meaning for me
This is indeed the best till now :D
Thank you!
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Thank you.
That's beautiful
I too use artrage I find artrage more interesting and we can expand our creativity in it
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Fantastic!