For my Word and Image class, we had to choose one of Aesop's fables and do a series of three illustrations based on that theme. I chose the Heifer and the Ox:
"A HEIFER saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor. Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion. The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a smile to the Heifer: "For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed.
I have included both some early sketches and color/media studies along with the final pieces. These were created by layering pastel drawings, a technique suggested to me in order to maintain crisp, graphic shapes in this medium.
