Once upon a time...
About a hundred years ago, my second husband (father of all my children) spent a few minutes each night telling stories to our children, to give them some soothing attention before they slept. The kids loved his stories, and I admired them greatly, myself...so I took a tape recorder in the room while he was telling stories on two different occasions, and then painstakingly transcribed those two stories, so they wouldn’t be forgotten.
Well, today I have finished the first illustration for one of the stories. (I still have the transcriptions, two decades later.) My son called me the other day and asked if I could send those transcriptions to him, and I offered to illustrate them and publish them in book form for his child, who is due next spring. He was amenable.
I accomplished this illustration of the opening passage using my Cintiq and Painter 9.5, the digital watercolor tools, specifically. It was a joy to do, and I think it was moderately successful. I hope my grandchildren enjoy it.