12 12 2018

Not quite the possibly-finished version but near as dammit... need to see it in daylight as was painting in the dark. Under lights, obviously. Jubilant though.
Setting up a problem and resolving it seems to be my raison d'etre.
Now for famine which so far is a disaster. Decided that to exclude humans was to dis the real horror of starvation that faces a load of the people on planet - to use a lion eating a badly drawn horse was not a decent response. On the other hand, the little scull-like faces, skinny arms, dead babies is too trite by far. (ooh just remembered - the second art prize of my life was a poster competition for Oxfam, and that's exactly what I did. Won a box of watercolours.)
Worked up some symbols, which I regard as self-eating.
One maze-like thing with no way out, one ouraborous, one erm other. Which I cant describe. Will insert when the painting is nearer that point.
Hard... where does illustration end and painting begin? When you are not in charge. When the dynamic of the system has overridden all other concerns. Haas to be done, in short.