Monthly Archives: April 2012
Yuki
We had our first child a week ago, a beautiful daughter called Yuki. Of course it was my job to make an illustration for the announcement, which I took extra seriously for the occasion! Cindy is really into folk music and asked me if I could do something with a folk theme. After looking at some cover art, I decided to do a kind of mythological picture with all these different animals gathering in celebration. First the idea was to make it a forest setting, but quickly this turned into a lotus flower drifting on quiet water by moonlight, mother and daughter positioned at the center. The flowers are derived from a Mucha poster. Here’s the result…
