{"id":461,"date":"2020-04-09T13:09:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T17:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/?p=461"},"modified":"2020-04-26T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T13:57:46","slug":"olivia-greuel-time-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/olivia-greuel-time-capsule\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Greuel Time Capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was going to suggest the following cropping for the sake of the hands alone–I think your drawing includes too much of the forearms at the expense of the more expressive hands (wonderfully drawn, BTW), and the blank areas inside the forearms don’t go with the overall style of filling space uniformly (i.e., no\u00a0 resting places). But then I noticed that the words look interesting going out of the frame, as if they go on indefinitely–more of a sea of words and associations rather than just a “pond.”<\/p>\n

But this wasn’t meant to exclude any of the words in the cropped sections–my main idea is to keep all the words just as they are but enlarge the hands in proportion to the rectangle and\/or change the proportions of the rectangle itself.<\/p>\n

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In the process, however, I also happened on a square format, which might also have its advantages. Squares are equilateral–that is, they move in all four directions, rather than left\/right only–making the sea of ideas more infinite. Horizontal compositions connote landscape space (and vertical compositions connote figurative space) but square compositions are equivocal, and more inclusive.<\/p>\n

But whether you like these ancillary suggestions or not, my core suggestion is to have made the hands more prominent by cropping the forearms (a purely academic speculation,\u00a0 by the way–this version of the drawing is fine as is).<\/p>\n

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I was going to suggest the following cropping for the sake of the hands alone–I think your drawing includes too much of the forearms at the expense of the more expressive hands (wonderfully drawn, BTW), and the blank areas inside the forearms don’t go with the overall style of filling space uniformly (i.e., no\u00a0 resting … Continue reading “Olivia Greuel Time Capsule”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1048,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-time-capsule-drawing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1048"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}