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Sleeping Bird

I was reading Brenda Ueland’s excellent book If You Want to Write last night and felt like making some more art, so here is “Sleeping Bird,” a new illustration I painted in Photoshop. This one’s a different style from my usual:

It was (rather) loosely inspired by Chinese art. And it’s fun trying to achieve a not-so-digital look using digital tools. Next goal: learning how to do woodcut-style illustrations in Photoshop.