An update to 'Trapped' yesterday to version 1.01, adding sound effects and making the default font larger.
Then worked on a drawing for a painting called When This Is All Over, inspired by the phrase often spoken about the Covid-19 pandemic. The original idea was a hand about to grasp a flying blue-tit, over a graveyard in a grey mist, but I wanted to add more, so changed the graveyard into a skull and setting from a Dutch still life vanitas. I also had the feeling to add elements there of the bird... this changed the work considerably. Now there is a sort of reflection between the present, future (of grabbing the bird), but the scene below, originally the past, might now be the future, or a present warning. Is the bird dead or dying? Is the future bleak at the death of the bird? Are we the bird, is freedom or opportunity dead? The painting has a lot more depth. I've transferred it to panel but it feels to dark and cold to paint. This small work will demand technical attention so that it can compete on visual terms with Willem Claeszoon Heda.
Meanwhile I'm working on the illustrations and cover for Deborah's next book.
