Another Art Nouveau wallpaper, this time in the delicate styles of Aubrey Beardsley. I started this wallpaper a year (and a week) ago because the original scan of Yuuko reminded me heavily of Beardsley's "The Peacock Skirt". I decided to combine that with an image of Watanuki covered in bandages - converting the bandages to more spider webs. It helped that the bandages were already in a web formation. I dusted this wallpaper off recently because I'm in an Art Nouveau kick and wanted to do something Nouveau that wasn't Alphonse Mucha-styled.
I realize now that the timing could not be better - Halloween is next week, and what better wallpaper theme than spiders? Regardless, that's merely coincidence.
Not much to say on technique -- just Illustrator and Illustrator art brushes for the spider weaves to save on time.
The title comes from the novel Spindle's End and is the first part of a poem:
Small spider weave on a silver sleeve
On weave your grey web nearer...

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