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My wife's not on mastodon, but when she's bored she will occasionally read my toots* and boosts. I've boosted lots of @… posts, which she has enjoyed enough to (unbeknownst to me) purchase his book.
* which is why I'm ALWAYS on my best behavior. 😏

Blake could barely make a living illustrating other people’s work, and it left no time for his own art.
He yearned for a different technique that could achieve the same result in less time and with less toil.
No such technique existed.
So he invented it.
Rather than cut the shapes onto the plates with his sharp steel burin, he painted directly onto the copper with a quill or brush dipped in acid-resistant varnish, then bathed the plates in acid, which stripped a layer …

The Most Valiant Way to Complain Is to Create: William Blake and the Stubborn Courage of the Unexampled
“The Eye altering alters all.”