Whilst painting the image it did go through lots of changes that are unrecorded. I did try to put in flowers around Little Bo-peep but they were looking a bit rediculous and thus I painted over them. Likewise, I had initially penciled in buildings and trees in the background, but upon painting the image, I really liked it simplistic look and deemed the said buildings and trees as unnecessary.
The colours could be described as cliche and this is delibrate to give an innocent look to the illustration.
Getting the shadows looking right took some time and experimentation. I know the clouds are missing their shadows (which was accidental), but I feel that with the delibrately confused perspective, putting those shadows in and getting them looking right would take a great deal of time and risk messing the image up completely.
For the sake of comparison, this is how the illustrator Laura Rigo did Little Bo-peep in the Nursery Rhymes book I purchased.
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