Bush Words

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Nov 29th 2007

Tags:: bush expressive human political portrait text text
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I did this for the "text" assignment in my drawing class. Yes, its George Bush, and it looks fuzzy because its comprized entirely of text. Not a difficult trick in photoshop, but it was alot of fun to do. I polled my class for the top words that come to mind when they think of Bush, and then just made them into brushes, and used my tablet to paint his portrait with them. Overall I'm quite pleased with the result.

Whoever can find the most words in there gets a prize, there are close to 40 total.

*edit* WOW featured!! hehe, I'm giddy now

its a great feeling to log in and see all those messages, just what I needed to help me get through finals.

thank you so much radical jojo and whitefoxDK!!!

Feature

Featured by Radical JoJo

Dec 4th 2007

Bush Words is a fantastic example of portraiture that takes the next step beyond just technical skill, into the realm of conceptual significance. Seth Desmoen here displays great painting skills with rich color and attention to detail, and then imbues a simple portrait with subtle political commentary by creating the entire piece out of words...words not chosen by the artist, himself, but volunteered by a range of others, giving it the strength of numbers. In a smart move, "Dubya" Bush isn't portrayed as a caricature, and all opinions are left in the marks that make up the piece at an infinitesimal level...a sweet, subtle move that inspires dialogue and discussion, rather than mere argument. A fine example of technical rendering skill married with conceptual cunning.

Suggested by WhiteFoxDK.

Comments

tap Says:

Holy crap.

HOLY CRAP.

That is amazing.

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RPDOfficer Says:

Texas..Beyond Words..Cheney...Disaster...WAR..ugly..

S'all I got.

Very awesome btw.

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OrangexSodax Says:

War, CHerny, Disaster, texas

o_o So far I'm winning

but seriously

OMG WOW! THis is amazing
This gets a small feature in my shoutbox

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tiber Says:

O.O

holy crap......

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Lady Wolfess Says:

I hate George Bush, but wow... you've pull this off nicely.

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JelmerBV Says:

War - Texas - Words - Beyond - Ugly - Enemy (?)

But anyway; nice picture ^^

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WhiteFoxDK Says:

This needs to be featured, it's beyond words.

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yasano Says:

This is such an original and amazing idea!! Great job!

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zhicago Says:

war, texas, no child left behind, ugly, enemy, cheney, disaster, slimebag, global (warming?), beyond words, desperate(?), idiot, monkey, imperfect (?), tax(es)

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