Illustration hijacked ...

I wanted to try something different - illustrate a story. Not really a story, but a weekend trip I took to lake Atitlan in Guatemala. I remember the lake, the mountains, the boat rides, the heavy rain, a small fishing boat in the middle of the lake, a dog, purple flowers ... but I had no idea how to bring all this on canvass. I decided to go with the flow, as usual. Everything went sort of ok until I started having "visions" again - the vision of the bird in the upper left corner. Maybe it is a quetzal on a tree branch, I thought. Then, I saw the eye, which in turn turned the branch into an alligator...and even an one-eyed one-legged monster ...