Colorful Cascade by Little Dean Design & Illustration-Modern the whole thing landing with

the whole thing landing with a confident

Kōno Bairei's Bamboo reduces the kacho-e tradition to its purest essentials

elemental energy so characteristic of his late period — nature rendered not as scenery

The matte surface holds the luminosity of the original palette — vivid where it should be vivid

anchored within a tightly balanced composition

Colorful Cascade by Little Dean Design & Illustration-Modern the whole thing landing withColorful Cascade by Little Dean is an exuberant downward movement of shape and colour. Forms tumble and overlap in a loose, joyful rhythm oranges, blues, greens, and reds finding their own logic as they travel down the picture plane. Little Dean's instinctive, curiosity led approach to composition is well suited to this kind of energetic subject: nothing here feels over planned, yet the visual balance holds from top to bottom. It is warm, immediate,