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A design exercise. Paper collage on cardboard, about 4.25 inches square.Related content
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thank you! I wasn't sure this one was going to work when I was halfway through - but then it came together
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hi Staats! thank you very much.
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Very cool.
I like the distribution of numbers and letters more-or-less around the perimeter except for enlarged which would not fit.
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Thanks, Ken. I notice that I'm often drawn to the perimeter, compositionally.
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Rev. Richard ? Β Squares are a bit different Β to work with. Nice !
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Thanks, Diane! Yes, the square is a neat variation.
I liked the "Rev. Richard" scrap because I'm ordained myself - I was a pastor in Connecticut for 21 years.
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Well, that's pretty cool !
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Yes, it was quite a career - knew so many people of all kinds, tried to do what I could for them. My ordination was in the United Church of Christ - the Congregationalists, mostly, in New England - but now I'm a Lutheran.
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Trying to help some people is very hard. I did counseling for a few years and in all honesty I burnt out. I also volunteered in the courts working with abused women. I helped them with restraining orders .It was frustrating when some were simply lying to get back at their significant other. In some cases it was outright scary.Β
Β What parts of New England ? I was raised a catholic , my dads family was protestant they didn't much like the catholic thing, it caused a lot of hard feelings back then.
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I get it about burn out. Pastoral work has an upside of celebration - but just one tough case after another is hard to take.
We lived in Torrington, Connecticut and I worked at a few different churches, mostly in the northeast corner of the state. That's right, the Catholic v. Protestant thing used to be so big. In the 70s when I started out that was passing, there was a lot of fellowship between Protestant and Catholic clergy, and ecumenical worship. But at one of my parishes once someone said maybe we shouldn't light so many candles, it was a Catholic thing to do. People are really something, aren't they? So kind and helpful on the one hand, so ready to take sides on the other.
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and great muted colors. of course, with that trace of blueΒ
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thanks! exactly - making my own
the small bright colored areas against the neutral is an obvious technique, but - it works! and you still have to figure out where to put them.
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it's only easy when you know what to do
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aw, shucks
i will add - when i began doing this i thought some collage artists had better scraps than me 
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i don't think it makes "better" but it makes different. (in my very limited experience)
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yes i agree with that, definitely. and different artists have palettes they prefer. i could tear up a fashion magazine and make something that worked but it would look like me. well - it would look less like me than usual
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yeah - i thought that was fun
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