I'll pull it out again and look at it critically in a couple of weeks. Once I've finished all the illustrations, I'll have a clearer head to assess which improvements are necessary, and which problems resolve themselves once I've separated myself from their creation.
Have you considered putting yourself in the third painting, in a classic H.G. Wells style time machine, with your painting set-up easel etc in the machine with you? It seems it would fit with your common theme of normal things out of place usually in nature.
ReplyDeleteOf course, it adds a humor element, which would entirely change the series, and that is a choice of its own.
I love that suggestion, Chris! I wish I were brave enough to add humor. At this juncture though, I've made it my goal to give the author exactly what she wants, as spiffy as I can make it. Maybe with a little more experience under my belt, I'll feel better equipped to integrate those kinds of elements.
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