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PAINTING·WHITE DWARF 445

The Firstborn

August 2019·p. 101

THE SHORT VERSION

Simon explores Blanchitsu through an Inquisitor guarding a grotesque supernatural infant and its containment objects. Pale preparation, dirty translucent highlights and textured corrosion create a limited, unsettling palette, with an amputated mechanical limb repurposed as the Inquisitor’s hat.

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