Re: Niall Browne - FINAL
You said you were going to use Leb Woods as your inspiration, and you weren't joking. You've done a good job of it, and surpassed old Leb by making people that you can actually care about. Missing is his grainy style, but that is how you have interpreted him, this rendering does not suffer for it. In fact, you have managed to exploit photoreal methods to add your own vagueness. You have used the flaws of photography--blurred part due to focus or movement and over and underexposure obscuring detail.
However, Woods' designs of the series you used tend to have his new architecture more integrated to the existing, they grow and break out of it. Yours is mostly stuck between two unaffected structures. The new piece resembles a head and shoulders a little too much. Or maybe just enough, depending on your intent. It bothers me. The sky has a cloud shape that creates a green arm and hand reaching down to grab the guys hat off, I find it distracting.
The squeezing of the picture adds to the sense of strangeness. There is a sense of overall chaos and complexity which makes the new piece seem right at home.
This is a picture done almost entirely in two tones--rust and warm gray. It is a masterful use of a limited pallette to hold an otherwise fragmented piece together.
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