This image took longer than anticipated; almost everything changed! Not only is Georgie Porgie's pose now completely different from flowing chasing figure in the roughs to a stationary one, there were lots of alterations and/or changing colour. For example, Georgie's trousers were initially very dark, but I felt they were getting lost in the image, and thus I brightened them up. This has turned out well as I really like the play between the colours of the two figures.
I wanted a different sort of scene for this image and hence I put them outside a building rather than in the outdoors like Bo-peep, or indoors like Jack Horner. I also knew I wanted Georgie Porgie to look a bit creepy with a promiscuous look about him. In response, the female figure needed to be repulsed. A lot of time was spent on their facial expressions to the point where Georgies is thick with paint to get it "just so". Their interaction was very important to me in producing this illustration. I am very pleased with how it has turned out.
Unfortunately I cannot compare Laura Rigo's illustration to this one as she did not illustrate this Nursery Rhyme.
The nursery rhyme goes like:
Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry;
When the boys came out to play,
Georgie Porgie ran away.
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