Did you know that I am doing the Illustrations for this book of poetry? Neither did I!!! My original intent was to use my color photography but now that my manuscript is arranged, it's pretty clear that I needed to rethink using my photos. For one thing, it was not working out to match up the "look" of the photos with the "feel" of the poetry sections.
It felt really hard. It did! I was sort of stuff on my photos. Then, in a really gentle way, I started to look through my reams of poems and short stories. Nestled in with a goodly stack of handwritten work, I found a pen & ink illustration from years and years ago. It's one of my favorites because it was inspired the tarot card for The Hermit. This became my muse and I have started to create the rest the images that will be used in the book.
What do you think?