Red BullsEyes
by Douglas Fromm
Title
Red BullsEyes
Artist
Douglas Fromm
Medium
Mixed Media - Collage On Cardboard
Description
This is one of my two entries in this year’s 2022 National Collage Show, under the title of “Ode to O.C.D”... I doubt that the jury will select it, precisely because of it’s obsessive and compulsive nature. It is really just an exercise called “ How many scraps of paper can be glued on an 18x24 inch piece of cardboard ?” The answer is “hundreds”, including the many dozens hidden underneath… I often came across new scraps that seemed to improve the design and glued them over earlier choices.
This is my longest living work, which started around 1977 as a piece called “Honey”, and gradually evolved until August 2021. See the descriptions of the 3 Previous images for details…
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September 16th, 2021
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Michael J Cooper
Beautifully mesmerizing piece. New faces seem to appear every time I look at it. Congratulations on being featured. Mike
Douglas Fromm replied:
Appreciated, as always, Mike…..occasionally I look at this and rediscover images that I forgotten about adding long ago !…
David Jacobi
Walt Whitman continued to rewrite Leaves of Grass. Honey is now Ode to O.C.D. Congrats my friend and keep going!
Douglas Fromm replied:
What a fine and insightful compliment !..l haven’t read Leaves of Grass since I was in college over half a century ago, I may go to the public library and check it out…
Jenny Revitz Soper
CONGRATULATIONS! It is my great pleasure to FEATURE your artwork on the homepage of The Artists Group, 9/21/2021! You are invited to post it in the Group's Features Discussion thread for posterity or any other thread that fits!
Gigi Thomas
Your awesome creation has been FEATURED on the ABSTRACT FEATURES DAILY GROUP Home Page! Congrats! Self Posting Available on the Discussion page.
MS Art By Sarka
Amazing piece! I admire your dedication and patience. It's nice to see that the word 'Honey' survived until the piece was finished!
Douglas Fromm replied:
Thank you for your observant compliment !..you are the first visitor to comment on “Honey”. I had forgotten about it myself until I wrote this description and remembered how this all started many years ago…
Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your creative and unique art work is Featured on the homepage of the "Out Of The Ordinary 1 A Day" group! 9/19/21 l/f/Pin
Linaji Creating
You have been chosen this week for our Front Page Mentions…Congrats! In ALL ABSTRACT ART Our Special Gallery of FRONT PAGE MENTIONS Link https://fineartamerica.com/groups/all-abstract-art.html?showmessage=true&messageid=6772141
Mucha Kachidza
Douglas, 'Red Bullseyes' is also proof that the O.C.D mind can create an artistic tour de force such as this. Congratulations on the 'CONSPICUOUS COLLAGE' feature!
Douglas Fromm replied:
I always appreciate compliments coming from a master of collage such as yourself !…over the years , I have learned to make the best of OCD and use it to my advantage….
VIVA Anderson
Fabulous ODE, Douglas, and congrats for your FRONT PAGE FEATURE, ALL ABSTRACT ART group, 17/09/21. A great backstory, and kudos on this 'final' edition!!!, f.v............VIVA
Keddy Ann Outlaw
Super collage! Congrats on its new designation as Conspicuous! Wise to keep to a limited color scheme and the colors you used work well together.
Douglas Fromm replied:
Thank you for this quite perceptive comment ! ..I wondered if anyone would notice that this is basically a three color scheme. This started out as a black and white image only, and then a solitary red Target was added. Years later I decided to add many more Targets, and was extremely tempted to start adding other colors, but forced myself to stay with the 3 color program, which was tough. Discipline is not often one of my strong points.
Rahdne Zola
Douglas, what an incredible feat! This is a mesmerizing, intriguing, visually pleasing creation! It's the CONSPICUOUS COLLAGE of the week! Fav/tweet!
Douglas Fromm replied:
Thank you so much for such an accolade !…I was not anticipating much of a response, since over the years my highly detailed works such as this usually collect such adjectives as “overdone” or “claustrophobic “.
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