One limitation, which proved too difficult to keep, was the use of primary colors. Secondary and intermediate colors where added in the mix. Another challenge was to do all this within a tight budget. All art was done in Illustrator then laser printed commercially. The final designs were twenty-four inches square with gray borders added. Then they were box-framed and displayed. All in all, an inexpensive outcome. One can only speculate how expensive this could have been if each were either silk screened or painted!
One of the more common traits of these designs is the "shadow" cast at the bridge of the nose. One of these designs uses a gray square while the other uses a triangle (half square) to accomplish this. One might question that the moustache is not a primary shape until you consider negative (white) space. The Russian sports a moustache made from two, overlapping black spheres, then two white spheres are placed "over" the black. Add a "white" triangle at the upper lip and wah-lah, a "primary" moustache.
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