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In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.

This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.

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Mountainous Landscape by Tobias Verhaecht

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Crazy Natural velvet malachite 🤩

Video: Pitman_natural_mineral

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A lot of the time when I reblog jewellery on here, it’s art nouveau jewellery, because I really like art nouveau. In general, and in jewellery in particular. And most of that is the aesthetic. I like the natural forms, I like the twisty curly bits, I like the use of materials, I like how a lot of art nouveau jewellery is using metals and stones and other materials to create a specific form, an insect or a plant or a goddess or even sometimes nature scenes. I like …

I feel like a lot of the time with jewellery, it feels like ‘I’m going to use this object to show off the size and value of my pretty rock’. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of those rocks are indeed gorgeous. But art nouveau feels more ‘I’m going to use these pretty rocks, and several other things, to create the impact of this object’? I just love the use of materials, glass and enamel and colour, as well as precious stones and metals, to create a form or a scene.

Like, you get a diamond ring, it’s a diamond ring. But you get something like a dragonfly brooch (Louis Acoc):

Or a lilypad hair comb (Rene Lalique):

Or a wisteria branch (Georges Fouquet):

And it’s a whole creation. A little wearable piece of art.

And I don’t want to sound too dismissive. I know the craftmanship and skill and artistry that goes into any kind of jewellery making. That diamond ring took skill I will never have. I just.

I like the emphasis on form more than material that you get with art nouveau. Like normally you hear ‘glass jewellery’, ‘enamel jewellery’, and it’s cheap, it’s frowned upon, but in art nouveau it’s what that glass or enamel was used to make that’s the important part:

(Rene Lalique)

(Eugene Feuillatre)

Anyway. In summary, I really, really, really like art nouveau jewellery?

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Cover art, Tales of the Marvelous Machine

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Near the Cosmos. Dawn flight by Stanislav Torlopov (1984)

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Emil Jakob Schindler

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“The Crawford Silver Dragon”

A hand made silver Dragon made in solid sterling 925 silver. The head is detatchable to reveal the reservoir for the lamp fuel. The wick is formed as the Dragon’s tongue. The Dragon will burn for hours -source-

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everyone wants their wizard tower to be the tallest and most ominous. but they never want to do the arcane paperwork or get the proper fey permits for their "sky-rending obelisk of pain." 🙄 it'll fall over. idiot

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haute couture ateliers: the artisans of fashion - hélène farnault (2014)

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all bdubs builds ive drawn in 2024 :')

(last year)

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You can see more of my sketchbook work on my Patreon!

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