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Post #477332 by Robb Hamel on Sun, Aug 16, 2009 8:26 AM

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leleliz - thanks, that would be wild, his heads are cooler than the real thing.

Sam - since my mind is permanently wired to Japanese woodblock design, simple subject matter is my goal, thank you.

Plus, I feel strongly that any velvet under 6 square feet is a poor medium for busy designs. I don't know if anybody else has discussed that, but I've rejected several elaborate designs because I knew they wouldn't work.

I do have the goal of doing a hyper-elaborate mega design as a roughly 12 square foot piece.

Here's the finished heads:

Sorry about the crappy, small pics - time is too short and lighting conditions are too rotten to fix right now. I'll get a good pic and post it as soon as I can.