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A reel built from a stylist's own hand-drawn sketches. The pencil illustrations became the art direction, and every moving frame was generated true to their line, palette and silhouette, then cut and graded by hand.
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In the Wellcome Collection I found a little-known set of trade portraits painted around 1840 by an unnamed artist from Tanjore, in present-day Tamil Nadu.
Each plate shows a working man and “his wife” on a flat yellow ground under a cloudy sky, with long brushy shadows and a line of palms on the horizon.
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Same trades two centuries later is a strong idea, and the yellow ground carries over really nicely.