From an iPad Sketch, this pigment print is an artist proof

I love the landscape for reasons beyond the beauty and grandeur.
At its essence, heaven meets earth. People love to talk about the weather, as it is the connection between the shared heaven and each person's piece of earth. Air is one element and dirt is another. The simplicity of the horizon is the most effective line ever drawn. Instant landscape.
Some days the sky looks like it has nothing in common with the land, sometimes the land, as in a dust storm, gets swept up into the sky and other times, such as with fog or low clouds, the sky makes the connection. Ultimately the world is all made up of the same stuff, but there can also be distinctions, so the sky is different than land but also the same. It is a universal and a place from which to begin.
The process for building a landscape in the imagination is a kind of creation of the world. From a simple line, I make regular landscapes with hints of memories of trips I have taken to nature, or just as favorably, I push the materials to make landscapes I invent. Both are nature- outdoors and inside.
With the click of a mouse instead of the smear of a wet brush. The simplicity of a lump charcoal or oil paint is similar to the basic image-making program of Paint. I do not use a pad of any kind, just a mouse. I use the Paint program free with Microsoft Windows. I use Paint from XP and also Windows 10. They changed the tools. The more boxy style with more line is XP and I choose one brush to use in Windows 10. I generally stick to the colors provided too. I like stock. I am the same way in my painting. I have been using the same three primary colors and titanium white for thirty years. I traded Alizarin Crimson for Cadmium Red Deep many years ago, otherwise, the same, for better or for worse. Confinement may seem like an arbitrary challenge, but defined guidelines are like fair play in a game. Without some rules the game is unplayable, so for the most part I stick to the color palette provided eventhough any color can be clicked to easily.
Using basic materials to make art allows for better experimentation and freedom of expression without the materials speaking too loudly. The computer here is the basic tool. Where it has an important advantage for my process is that it has quicker erasing and making changes is even easier and more flexible than using traditional materials. The materials result in a new and modern style in landscape painting. The greatest of these new tools and methods is the bucket tool which fills any defined area with the color chosen. Doing that flatly with a brush takes a lot of time, and if an adjustment needed to be made, wet into wet paint in large swaths is a job. Here the computer does it quickly and without muddying the color, so that more decisions can be made. Simple pleasures.
When I was younger and watched tv I used to play solitaire or draw or occupy myself in other ways to complement the tv. When in 2005 I moved from New York to Jerusalem, I found myself more attached to the computer to keep America with me, mostly in talk radio, and podcasts. Spider Solitaire had me in its grip until I decided to explore Paint.
I wanted to make some rules about what I was going to make on the computer and so I decided that the natural of the landscape would meet the unnatural of the computer. Color would be the shared power and I would make prints that would delight a broader public than the audience I was reaching with my figurative drawings and paintings.
The juiciness of the color in these prints are a surprise. As in all printmaking there is a surprise. Here, the color I work with is projected from a lit screen when I am mousing the work together. Then the intense ink has a quality of richness on the thick paper that gives solidity to these works of light. In the smaller format, they are like candy, and in the larger format they are nearly installations - Ben Simon