Transmitting emotion and telling a story with my illustrations are very important to me. With this digital painting, inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite painters, I try to do both. Here’s a short text that accompanies it:

“The squirrel saw her run to the pond, to her usual spot beneath the weeping willow. There, she used to daydream and play with him and her other friends… But that day was different. She carried something, the squirrel didn’t know what it was, she looked at it several times, and she was sad. The weeping willow’s branches moved with the gentle breeze, hiding her tears and sobs from the rest of the world.”