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Awesome pictures. Am I overthinking it, or is it of INTENDED relevance that:
-Tomoe occupies the central position
-Chizu is trying to push her way in
-Mariko is "falling" out
Do I see a spot of correction fluid where the name of the first owner might have been, just above "Best wishes"?
Not that it deminishes the artwork, but why would someone do that, I wonder??
Greetings from overseas
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* Everybody is an alien.... in almost all parts of the universe !*
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Thomas Froehling wrote:Do I see a spot of correction fluid where the name of the first owner might have been, just above "Best wishes"?
Your eyes serve you well... although it was not the person I bought this from that did it; he says it was the person he bought it from back in 2001, who I assume was the original commissioner. Putting it up to the light I can see "To Waki..." and maybe a couple more characters but I can't quite make them out properly.
With a breeze comes a storm, but then you'll all be washed away...
The illustration on the envelopes this year was not what was originally planned, but rather a last minute switch to something a little simpler because I was having the worst time getting the envelopes to print, my poor Epson printer was definitely gasping it's last few breaths while working on them. And the last two cards to be mailed out were actually sent out in hand made envelopes since a few of the original envelopes were ruined by the printer.
Steinar Lund is a reasonably well known artist here in the UK (in certain circles) who has created a lot of artwork for computer and video games, magazines, books, various products and the such not. He is currently selling off a bunch of his original artwork when I came across this in the pile...
Needless to say, I did rather have to buy it! It was for a magazine in the UK in 1989 and he's drawn his own version of Usagi from Stan's original image. This is no copy and paste job. If you think it looks really, really accurate, then that's because he's a very, very good artist
With a breeze comes a storm, but then you'll all be washed away...