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Published: 2006-12-22 06:38:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 993; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 12
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My first piece for my Cooper home test, a one word prompt; "Restraint"There is a lot of thought behind this. Mostly the word sparks a sort of broken composition to me personally, I thought of my collage work immediately and so it doesn't steer to far away from the vein of work I've been doing recently in terms of aesthetic. The reasoning behind the sense of broken-ness is that restraining yourself is like breaking your original impulse and trying to redefine your actions or reactions. I identified four words that I felt strongly represented that idea and my feelings of restraint, and cut out large stencil letters from those words. Altered the letters with acrylic, and some are in here. Also, elements of self portrait because the issue is personal. There is another addition but I'd rather not get into it.
Piece is approximately 8.5x6.5 inches.
Acrylic, paper bits, ballpoint pen, rotring rapidograph pen, elmers glue, sandpaper on cardboard.
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Comments: 19
master of collages. for sure. baby im dont gona leaveeeeeeee youuuuuu!.dope style.
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wat you wrote about what robert said was a good idea
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i just wanted to say that this and its description helped me get over my two week long break from drawing and any other creative process.
very nice.
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Oh, good. That makes me feel better about it. It may come under some alteration if I have the time.
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im not sure what i think of this
it is something you would make but when looking at it, it feels like you didnt want to
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Very Fifties looking.
The whole subject brings to mind another word similiar in result.
Anticipation roll it around and see if you get the same general reaction as Restraint.
Very Nice work and deviation.
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i love it!
what do you think of adding a little yellow in the spaces in the black?
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I considered adding yellow after it was finished, because there's only that one large patch of it. I can't decide if that's simply bad design (repetition of color times at least 3 from Miller) or if it's just the right amount in the right place. I have a few weeks to sit on it, so I'm going to I think.
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looking back at this, i think the background is sucking the intensity out of the collage aspect (which i know is restraint but its also kind of spoiling the aesthetic appeal) and I think lowering that contrast between the black and the sanded white area by making the white yellow would be a realllyyy nice unifier
like just very subtle watercolor or something
because right now the background is black-white and the collage is color and they look kind of like seperate entities
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brilliant, love the written stuff incorporated into the piece and of course the drummer boy.
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a fortress of color blocks floating in outerspace.
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It does sort of make me think of a space station.
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