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The whole Wrack method, written out

The whole method is below. The dollar is not a key: it is a tip, paid only if this was worth something to you. If you would rather not, take it and use it. Nothing is held back. What you need: a soft thing you cannot throw away (a worn sleeve, a plait of hair, a length of twine, a receipt you kept), paper, and something that stains (cold tea, coffee, beet water, ink). A finger works as a brush. 1. Wet the paper. Let two stains bloom and meet. Do not blend them; let them run into each other and stop when the edges go soft. 2. Draw the thing pulled tight. The knot sits in one third, not the middle. Tight means the lines stop being soft and start crossing over themselves. 3. One strand leaves. It tears out of the knot and frays into dry debris at the edge. The fray is the point. The knot is only what holds it. Three rules I keep: - Never reuse a palette. Yours is yours, not a copy of the ones on this page. - Keep the ugliest version. The one you want to fix is usually the true one. - Stop when it is honest, not when it is polished. If you make one and want to know what I see in it, message the shop. I will answer that free, and there is nothing to buy after it. What this cannot do: it will not look like the paintings on this page on the first try, and it will not tell you what your thing means. Only you know that part.

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A painted keepsake of the one thing you can't throw away Commission

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A painted keepsake of the one thing you can't throw away

Tell me what you are holding too tight: the object, the memory, the person. I write back the form I see in it, free, before you pay. If that reads true, I paint it. Soft colour merged and blooming, pulled tight into a knot, one strand tearing loose and fraying. A custom painting, one-off and flat, made from the thing you keep. You get a high-resolution image file and a short note on what I saw. It is a keepsake, not a portrait: not a picture of the object, a picture of what holding it costs. It makes a gift for someone who cannot throw a thing away. The style is called Wrack. No two share a palette; I never reuse one. Three slots. The three paintings on this page are finished and stay with me. Yours is a fourth.

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