Suppressed Urge

mistertrooth
Suppressed Urge by mistertrooth

Suppressed Urge

an image created with photoshop. All the bricks are sourced from a single shot of only about a dozen, taken with a ‘point and shoot’ el cheapo camera. I spent a lot of time rearranging, inverting and re-painting bricks so that they wouldn’t look too repetitive. I feel this is my best so far.

Suppressed Urge belongs to the following groups:

Altered by Design, Art and Stories Made For Children, Art Inspired by Dreams, New Zealand Made, PixElations - The Art of Photoshop, Spiritual Art, Surrealism, Symbolism in Art and The Digital Interface
  • atomikboy

    atomikboy, 5 months ago

    Awesome!!!

  • Wizard

    Wizard, 5 months ago

    Excellent artwork !!

  • solareclips

    solareclips, 5 months ago

    WOW!!! This is really different!! I love it!!

  • richardredhawk

    richardredhawk, 5 months ago

    love the design great work

  • Andy Mercer

    Andy Mercer, 5 months ago

    You can have all the skill in the world but if you don’t have imagination its worthless.. in your case you have both.

  • mistertrooth

    mistertrooth in reply to Andy Mercer’s comment, 5 months ago

    couldn’t agree more with the skill/imagination comment. That’s why children’s pictures are often so beautiful. ‘Urge’ is the most recent one of this bunch.

  • Larry Butterworth

    Larry Butterworth, 5 months ago

    whoa that is a cool image

  • ToastedGhost

    ToastedGhost, 4 months ago

    This is wonderful!!!

  • Shannan Edwards

    Shannan Edwards, 4 months ago

    impressive indeed. really appreciate the effort that you put in!

  • mistertrooth

    mistertrooth in reply to Shannan Edwards’s comment, 4 months ago

    Thanks shannon – yeah i guess there’s effort involved – but as I’m sure you know, it doesn’t really feel like effort when you’re in the zone ….

  • DreamzInspired

    DreamzInspired, 4 months ago

    Wow, that is a lot of work, looks great !!

  • Helena Babic

    Helena Babic, 4 months ago

    Hello, just discovered your work on here, you’re brilliant! Really original stuff in here, haven’t seen anything like it. Keep up the great work :)

  • mistertrooth

    mistertrooth in reply to Helena Babic’s comment, 4 months ago

    Thanx heaps Helena!

  • PNFdeb

    PNFdeb, 4 months ago

    creative !!

  • kreesor

    kreesor, 4 months ago

    Fantastic. Great job with the bricks.

  • mistertrooth

    mistertrooth in reply to kreesor’s comment, 4 months ago

    Thanx kreesor. I had the image in my head for a long time B4 i tackled it, because i knew the bricks would drive me nuts, but i’m glad i did.

  • Michelle Boyer

    Michelle Boyer, 4 months ago

    Awesome work

  • Hugh Waller

    Hugh Waller, 4 months ago

    Amazing!!!!!!

  • helene ruiz

    helene ruiz, 4 months ago

    excellent!!!

  • Carrie Glenn

    Carrie Glenn, 4 months ago

    Hey mistertooth…this is FABULOUS….(thought I’d through a new adjective at ya!) I love the way this came together and all of your time invested was well worth it!! Excellent thought and wonderful work!

  • mistertrooth

    mistertrooth in reply to Carrie Glenn’s comment, 3 months ago

    Thanx carrie – a lot of the work never got seen… the brick guy was originally holding onto a disgusting pig/woman/monster thing, which was where the oicture started – but i realised she was spoiling it, and that brick boy was supposed to be the central figure, and i went back to the drawing board, and found the moth, and had one of those ‘EUREKE’ moments that make art worth doing.

  • mistertrooth

    mistertrooth, 3 months ago

    oops – i meant eureka … lol

  • Carrie Glenn

    Carrie Glenn, 3 months ago

    LOL….no I totally know what you mean and have done the same thing before…it has to be just right and only you know when and how.. ;p Cool to hear a little more on the background on this one! ;D

  • RosaCobos

    RosaCobos, 3 months ago

    My god…..
    What a precious work you have done..
    The wall…emanates love for your own domains…your home ..
    and the figureitnis emerging is soft and gentle…having trapped with sweetness this butterfly..with any mean but trying to feel the strength of her wings. You are an artists…and this work has moved in may ways…specially to give me courage to follow my own paths… thankyou.
    Rosa (thanks for your presence in my Rose crying gold tears)

  • webart

    webart, 3 months ago

    Wow.

  • mistertrooth

    mistertrooth in reply to RosaCobos’s comment, 3 months ago

    wow… thankyou so much Rosa – your interpretation gave me goosebumps. When someone shares their impression of a picture in that way, it enables me to see my own own work through the eyes of a stranger, which is always a pleasure…..

  • RosaCobos

    RosaCobos, 3 months ago

    You are so wellcome..
    Your work impressed me a lot. Yes…. humbleness… dedication… and self-centering.
    Besides that.. this idea is strickingly moving… is like “magic” (sorry if this word sounds too usual…
    We will se each other.. hope.
    Rosa

  • DVS1

    DVS1, 3 months ago

    wow… thisis soo different… awesome!!

  • Shanina Conway

    Shanina Conway, 3 months ago

    Wonderful briliant work…it’s all just over the other side of the fence;)

  • mistertrooth

    mistertrooth in reply to Shanina Conway’s comment, 3 months ago

    yeah exactly – he needs to let go the butterfly, look thru that hole, and pick up the hammer.

  • Gili Orr

    Gili Orr, 2 months ago

    Love it! Oh, congrats for the feature :-)

  • Julie Miles

    Julie Miles, 2 months ago

    Poor moth! Doesn’t he realize it isn’t a brick?

  • mistertrooth

    mistertrooth in reply to Julie Miles’s comment, 2 months ago

    Hmmm- interesting question. If ‘he’ is the brick man, i would say he definitely knows the moth isn’t a brick, and that’s why he’s holding onto it. The question for me is; how hard is the moth actually trying to escape? The brick man’s body language to me is quite gentle – even tender….

  • Julie Miles

    Julie Miles, 2 months ago

    This is true…but I was thinking in terms that a moth’s wings are very delicate, so no matter how gently the brick man is holding on to it, the wings still might get damaged. And, although the brick man’s expression is wistful, it seemed, to me anyway, that the moth was almost an afterthought to him.

    Of course, it’s your art, so your interpretation can overrule anything I have to say.

  • mistertrooth

    mistertrooth in reply to Julie Miles’s comment, 2 months ago

    no – i think all interpretations are as valid as each other … once you put your stuff out there, you don’t ‘own’ people’s responses to it. I agree he does look a little distracted. what i like about creating these photo montage images is that because i’m using pieces of other pictures, certain elements of the pictures are beyond my control, which makes the final product a bit like a dream i woke up from. I’m still working this one out myself :-)

  • Teeze

    Teeze, about 1 month ago

    Wow – Awesome work. Very nicely done indeed. :) The extra effort on the bricks really paid off – they look great!

  • mistertrooth

    mistertrooth in reply to Teeze’s comment, about 1 month ago

    Thanx teeze – I’m about to feature this in a group exhibition at a new gallery here in Melbourne. I’ve never seen this image printed on paper before … I’m picking up the print from the lab this afternoon – very excited! It will be 19 inches deep (top to bottom) – so fairly large.

  • Damian

    Damian, about 1 month ago

    That’s really well done. Fantastic!

  • mistertrooth

    mistertrooth in reply to Damian’s comment, about 1 month ago

    Thanks Damian – i just saw it photographically printed for the first time yesterday, and I’m thrilled with it. It’s at the framers as i write this. I never feel a pic really ‘exists’ until it’s been printed

  • Vytas Gaizutis

    Vytas Gaizutis, about 1 month ago

    Well done!

  • eelsblueEllen

    eelsblueEllen, about 3 hours ago

    Exquisite!

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