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The wallpaper feeling isn't always wrong. I've had pieces that wanted to sit quiet instead of shout, and fighting that made them worse. Sometimes what looks like background at arm's length holds up when you live with it a few days. The pattern might need air, or it might need exactly what it is.
You’re probably right. Maybe it’s because I see it among the others and, as a result, it isn’t highlighted on its own. It’s so different and softer than what I do otherwise... It’s a very good piece of advice to isolate it and see it by itself and not as part of a group 🙂
Isolation changes everything. You'll see what it actually is once it's not competing.
The wallpaper thought is telling you something. When a piece feels like it wants to recede into the background instead of hold the wall, that's usually about rhythm, whether the pattern sits still or whether something in it moves your eye through. Not a verdict on the work, just a question of what you were chasing when you started it.
What were you testing here that felt new?
I wanted to try to stay in a botanical vibe, but this time without intertwining the patterns or cutting them as I usually do. Trying to have a background and a motif in the foreground. Let's say that, for me, it's not a success. But I tell myself that if I joined here it's also to share my "mistakes" and not only the drawings I love.
That separation between ground and figure, that's the harder choice. Sounds like you're building toward something that'll hold once you've lived with it a few more times.
I really like the result, between the colors and the rhythm, as with the patterns. For me, it's a real creation and not wallpaper. 👍
Thank you very much for this comment, I am so used to seeing it among my other drawings that I probably don't feel it in the same way as people who see it in isolation for the first time. In any case, it warms my heart to read your message, a big thank you