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Notes

How each style gets built: which artists, movements and cultural references go into the blend, why, and what the image models made of it.

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  Splashed Malachite Ink — Zhang Daqian's poured colour, Xu Beihong's loaded stroke, and raw xuan paper

  November 9, 2026 — Pooled malachite, azurite and cinnabar washes bleeding into raw paper, held together by a few heavy strokes of black ink. Mostly empty paper, scattered flecks, and very little line: Chinese ink painting at its most economical.

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  Enamelled Madder Glaze — Bilibin's ink, Mucha's flat ornament, and a stone-printed grain

  November 4, 2026 — Crisp black ink outlines around flat, saturated colour, with pattern taking the place of shadow and a mottled printed grain in every fill. Five inks only (cadmium yellow, crimson lake, vermilion, cream and black), and ornament everywhere.

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  Hennaed Bristle Haze — Zorn's four colours, Mullins's soft edges, and a henna-stained ground

  November 4, 2026 — Quick, directional brushstrokes in a four-colour palette over a rust-brown henna stain that glows through the thin paint. Warm highlights, cool darks, and detail that's sharp only where you look.

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  Rose Madder Backrun — Manara's sepia line, Rackham's blooming washes, and cold-press paper

  November 2, 2026 — A fine sepia pen line holding thin watercolour glazes that bleed out into mottled, granulating blooms. Rose, violet-grey and warm sienna on toothy paper, delicate and slightly storybook.

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  Amber Pool Nocturne — teal and black, with one warm light bleeding from inside

  November 1, 2026 — Thick black outlines, porcelain-smooth warped forms, and a single amber glow against teal and black. It makes whatever you point it at look staged and private.

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  Flash Stencil Limewash — point-blank flash, katazome stencils and Egyptian pilgrim-house walls

  November 1, 2026 — A street photographer's hard on-camera flash, a Japanese stencil-dyer's crisp flat fills, and the chalky painted walls of Upper Egyptian pilgrim houses, in blue, green and ochre.

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  Glacier Gloss Poster — Villemot's flat poster planes, Sorayama's chrome gloss, and mountain mist

  November 1, 2026 — Flat poster colour broken by hard, liquid highlights, with distance fading into the silvery haze of a 1906 mountain-expedition photograph.

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  Patinated Whiplash Grey — Mucha's line on McKean's weathered collage, in grey with one colour

  November 1, 2026 — Art Nouveau whiplash contours drawn over a corroded, scratched mixed-media surface on distressed paper, all in black, grey and paper white, except for exactly one spot of colour.

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  Spidery Rose Folk-Line — Fini's glowing flesh, Kubin's murky ink, and a lotería card's folk line

  November 1, 2026 — Soft rose fog for the light, teal shadows that sink into murky ink, and outlines that flip between velvety and razor sharp. Tender and a little haunted at the same time.

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  Stamped Metal — engraving turned into a carved gold-and-slate panel

  November 1, 2026 — Fine engraved line raised into bas-relief, framed with Art Nouveau celestial ornament and burnished gold leaf, so every picture becomes a carved metal-and-stone plaque.

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  Oxblood Overprint Glow — noir comic inking pulled through a gig-poster press

  October 28, 2026 — Hard noir shadow shapes, a screen-printer's restricted ink set of oxblood, ochre and black, and one cyan note that feels almost electric because there's so little else competing.

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  Flash-Burnt Clone Collage — a Weirdcore style, on the second try

  October 23, 2026 — Two internet-era animators' cut-out collage and recursive cloning, shot like a cheap early-2000s flash snapshot. A Weirdcore style, and what went wrong the first time.

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  Hatched Bloom Contour — Manara's pen line with Sargent's runaway watercolour

  October 21, 2026 — A comic artist's taut dip-pen line doing the structural work, a watercolourist's wet-into-wet washes getting loose around it, and cold-press paper letting the colour bloom past the edges.

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  Scraped-Glaze Slash — Jeremy Mann's scraped streets cut with Fechin's slashing strokes

  October 19, 2026 — A painter of scraped, glazed city streets and a master of slashing brushwork, on a gessoed panel, with the polish saved for one spot.

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  Dragged-Plane Chalk — Hofmann's colour blocks drawn over in crayon

  October 18, 2026 — An abstract painter's slabs of colour and a picture-book illustrator's chalky crayon, on thin oil over rough canvas, in four colours.

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  Six styles with a pop-culture wild card

  October 18, 2026 — Six styles built from two artists and one thing you'd recognise — a dance craze, a home computer, a matchbox, a cola label — where the third element brings its mood and never its objects.

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  Faded Olive Composite — Uelsmann's darkroom meets Crewdson's light

  October 17, 2026 — Two photographers who build pictures out of pieces — one in the darkroom, one on a film set — blended into one style, then printed onto paper that's had fifty years to fade.