Funny… That first panel has totally different meanings for me now, than when I was drawing it.
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Here in America, it’s Labor Day Weekend, which may explain why it’s gone a little quiet lately on the Lorelei. Not many of you at your computers, these fine last days of Summer?
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FOUR PAINTINGS CALLED “THE LOVE LETTER”
AND ONE WAITING TO BE WRITTEN
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Ah, the epistolary pleasures of times gone by…
A few 19th century moments, perhaps not all great on their own, but put together, they build the mood a little…
1834: “Love Letter” by Thomas Sully.
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1872: “Love Letter,” by Emile Levy
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1886: “The Love Letter,” by Frank Richards
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1899 (?) “The Love Letter,” by Marcus Stone
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And this one, which I like far better, also from Marcus Stone, called “Olivia”:
I wonder: what letter is she about to receive? Any offerings, O Fellow Twainers? I know a number of you are writers. How about together we send some time-traveling mail to Miss Olivia?
I’m still here Captain Mark, I haven’t left since the day I arrived on this
wonderful little ship
Mark would you ever consider sharing pics/demo of your page making process? I know it kind of breaks the magic, but you have some wonderful grays that I would love to watch come together to make the final project (reclining mermaid on the last page is fantastic).