hello all, and happy new year.

i just wanted to share this bit of lovely inspirational eyecandy. keith lo bue does some beautiful, complex, highly detailed work. also, i covet his workshop. ;)

diary of an antiquary

and the finished piece is linked here, below the artist's statement. (keep clicking, the detailed shots are amazing.)

[disclaimer: please do not read this as an endorsement or approval to cut up objects of historic value, like, oh, say, illuminated manuscripts, for your projects. if you're gonna do something like this, use replicas/copies, mkay?]

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