This was one of the first images I made when developing my style of wildlife art from urban details.
I usually take macro photographs of urban decay and use them but in this case it wasn't so much decay as sloppy workship on a kerbstone. Whoever had painted the black and white stripes was in a hurry and couldn't wait for one to dry before painting the next.
In situ:
I liked the shapes the paint had formed as it had run together but it was only when I got home that it struck me as looking similar to conifer tree-tops.
Before adding the raven:
From there it was a short step in Photoshop to adding a raven on the suitably bent tip of a tree with the help of a silhouette created in Illustrator. The starkness of the black and white colours helps give the impression of a cold and snowy forest so a raven seemed an obvious choice. And I liked to keep it minimalist with just a relatively small, single animal forcing a natural interpretation of the background.
Detail:
I like the irony of this wintry scene from northern lands actually coming from a Bangkok street!
