Another iteration of a very useful photo … even a simple software program such as Preview can change and change and change an original. But only, in my experience, if the original photo had depth and variety.
Rather than expanding the original short chapters with bloat, I decided might as well continue posting them two at the time.
Dusk through the trees at the cross-roads … a snapshot from Chapter 22
This illustration from an image service, Pixabay I believe. I’ve had the image in my files for quite a while. I just checked Google image service but no owner came up, just that a fractal process was used to generate it.
It’s called Blueyellowcontours.jpeg. I thought It an appropriate illustration of what Lilly’s “pretty water” might’ve looked like.
The Book of Life and its characters escaping … seemed like an appropriate companion to Tardi’s trials in the the next chapter …
This is a screenshot of a Adobe’ed artwork by an artist I don’t know. PS, a friend, did the Adobe-ing. It’s so easy these days to lose sight of the original artist. We might as well accept that once our work hits the online world, it’s out of our hands, it’s no use crying. Or conversely, our attitude can be that we’ve launched our art to do its work in the world.
This started as a watercolor study of sweet potato leaves and rapidly became a semi-abstract study. I’m sure I don’t know how that happens sometimes.
The only time in my life that I’ve ever risked looking directly at the sun was in 2019 when bush-fire smoke made that possible. Here the sun setting behind Chincogan or more popularly known as ‘Chinnie’. A little relationship to the story so far.
Rita de Heer 