The scene
Inspired by The Lion King (1994). A lion, a meerkat and a warthog walk a fallen log in silhouette against a blazing sunset, with the words hakuna matata set across the sky. Hakuna matata is a Swahili phrase that means no worries, and I wanted it to feel as warm as the sun going down. The animals are real animals, not the film's characters.
The style
A 19th-century American landscape oil: a sky on fire with gold, orange and rose, deep shadows below and three small dark shapes walking into the light.
The inspiration
The look comes from Frederic Edwin Church's Twilight in the Wilderness (1860), Cleveland Museum of Art, for its blazing sky and oil technique. The animals and the scene are my own.
How it's made
I design each picture and refine it until it feels right, and I set the words myself. It's a print of a digital artwork in the style of a 19th-century landscape oil, not a hand-painted original. Each one carries my printed "Chapter & Scene" signature in the corner.