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Cake day: June 5th, 2025

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  • Use an eraser to add highlights and don’t be scared to get stuck in, redo, refine. Also try using something like a brown paper rather than white. I go in with the idea of creating a dark image/object, with highlights, rather than a white sheet with perfect lines. In general i find a block of white a hindrance. Its too clean and makes me reluctant to get started or make marks.






  • I have a softspot for edo (drawing and woodprint). In some of them you can pretty much see what would have been a fine pencil line…then carved and reproduced. It is skillful and decadent, but basic a the same time.

    I also like the Art Nouveau illustrations, the colour the curves, the earth-fullness. And the fact this was intertwined into architecture made some beautiful sights for our eyes.