This fourth image almost never happened. As the deadline neared, I felt I had run out of time to complete another image. In an attempt to give myself time I chose a simple composition. The nursery Ryhme of 'Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son' offered me this.
Here we see Tom carrying a pig he stole in a sack. The weather is overcast; this is setting the mood for the crime he has committed. Plus, this offers me a chance to do something different from the nice weather sky on my Little Bo-peep illustration.
My rough sketch below shows that the fence was there in my rough sketch but when painting I actually removed the fence. However, I felt something was missing and now with the fence in, I think it makes the image tighter and more effective. The version without the fence is on the right below (I thankfully had the foresight to scan the image in before changing the original!).
The nursery rhyme illustration by Laura Rigo is below. Interstingly, both mine and hers are going in the same direction.
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