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Published: 2004-04-27 10:20:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 6442; Favourites: 138; Downloads: 1648
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Started with an innocent newspaper collage and turned into this...Had fun with all the fish tho'.
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Comments: 83
FISH totally ROCK!!
Wow... Nice piece there... I think I'm jealous!!
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iam not sure what to say about.very innovative,very expressive,very different indeed.
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Wow! How'd this fly under my radar?? Cool stuff, truly...such a quirky and appealing graphic style, you have. I dig it.
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apparently colors and cardboards are more important to people than the meaning of this work
so this community finally "discovers" you. congrats!
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Hey I wanted to let you know that this piece really fuckin kickass man \m/.
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It's so hard for me to choose what I like most about this ... the way you left some ink free in fish shapes toward the bottom of the orange article ... or the checkerboard fish, with the faded shapes in the black squares ... or those beautiful drawn fish at the top ...
Either way, it's a beautiful piece, and I can tell a lot of work and effort went into it. Nicely done, and well-deserving of a DD. 
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Cardboard as a break from the norm ... yes, it is, it is also more readily and cheaply available than canvas boards or making a frame and stretching canvas over it; I totally feel ya on that. Now that you've piqued my curiosity I'll have to rummage through your other works.
Cheers!
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mix all these ingredients
mezcla todos estos ingredientes
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Unique. I really fond watching fishes used in chess.
Great stuff I'll be checking your gallery.
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what a wonderful concept. and i love the colors too. fun. i wish you'd have a print of this.
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this is awesome
i love the textures from the cardboard and the paints
sunburn?
getting rid of tanning?
scented sunscreen spray?
very strange but i love it
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this is bizarre and beautiful! the paint and pen-sketch look is really appealing
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Tis quite cute, and it certainly looks like it was fun to do, congrats on the DD! I especially like the lil silver blue fishies.
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Beautiful - especially the colors. I've always liked coming across the odd project on cardboard, and the flying fish remind me of James Christensen. :^) 
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oh man, this is awesome. fantastic work! great hatching work and real interesting composition. +fav for sure.
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wow. it's so different from all the rest of the stuff you normally see on DA. awesome job. it's really hars to stop looking at it. it's so full, and yet you laidit out perfectly. will stop babbling incoherently and just give you a
~Ri
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"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." --Voltaire (1694-1778)
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Strange, I'm certain I commented on this about two months ago. Did you delete this and resubmit this, or something?
It certainly is a very interesting and creative piece. Somehow, the cardboard adds quite a bit of personality to this, and makes it seem a little more human and friendly than it otherwise would. The orange and the blue colours, on top of the brown of the cardboard, really go well together.
It's interesting the way that, at the bottom, the fish are all nearly identical, and laid out so perfectly in rows. They seem to almost be prisoners in those little checkerboard cells. As they go up, they become a little more unique and alive, and then, once they get past that newspaper barrier, look completely alive, and almost realistic. The ladder, as well, gets more lifelike as it comes up out of the newspaper.
Personally, I like the top part the best, with it's detail, the rich warm colours, and the way the colours seem to drain down from the fish and flow along the wall to the floor. In contrast, the bottom looks a little bland (in my entirely subjective opinion. 
Overall, though, you did a fantastic job on this. It definitely deserves the DD.
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thanks so much for your time and the insightful comment.
Reactions/interactions like this make it all worthwhile.
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sorry for the useless comment, i just didn't want to fav it without ommenting. wonderful piece.
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damn me and my useless typos
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Interesting. The checkerboard portion in the lower half of the image seems to evoke a certain Escher tesselation, but then it would have had the fish entering the black tiles displayed with more prominence. The article about suntan was an interesting choice for a collage background, as was the cardboard. I have seen cardboard artwork before, it's a wonderful medium to work on, more people should try it. The horizontal/vertical positioned fish in the center are interesting, all chaotically moving in opposite directions, not at all a unified school of fish. The uppermost group fish seem as if you were attempting to draw them with realism, but needed more art reference photos/diagrams to study. The ladder in the upper right is especially intriguing, perhaps it is the ladder aside a dock, leading down into the water, symbolising the gap-bridger between two entirely different realms, which the fish have learned to somehow climb so that they now move above the dock as well as in the dark checked depths below the water.
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your time is appreciated. much much appreciated!
the whole thing kind of evolved from a crafty collage exercise... and if i were to (and i should) revist this, your comment would make the most detailed reference 'notes'.
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thakyou... u've calmed my heart with this piece... anything i can do to thank ya? .. yeah perhaps a fav..
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+ha haaa... great to see you here! good job on this one, i really like the colors and the contrast of the free top against the structurated bottom. the texture and tone of the cardboard makes a great background. congrats on the Daily D, my friend.+
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thank you... now I'm ridiculosly pleased!
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kind of MC Escher like, i love the colors and how it's split into three progressions, but it's pulled together by the fish and ladder. loverly dahlin, loverly.
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that is absolutely craaaazy!!!
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Cool stuff; fish ARE fun. A bit slimey, but fun, nonetheless.
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that reminds me of the tessellations that M. C. Escher did, but this is so much more vibrant. wow. i just love the colors, and the textures it shows... how do you do it?
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