The tiger was a bit trickier. I had this idea that he’d be standing on a planet or moon or something (originally he was standing on a round circus ring), but I couldn’t find anything that fit just right.
So I started looking for alternate (but still round) ideas. Still, I came up with nothing. That is, until I started thinking about his orange and black coat, which reminded me of the 1960’s-70’s and that reminded me that my mom gave me a book about indoor plants from that era, so I started to look through it.
Before I cut anything out, I would place him here or there… it wasn’t until I found this funky living room scene that I imagined him climbing on the sofa (like cats like to do!) but sort of hiding behind the plant, too. It just worked out perfectly (purrfectly?) that it looks like he’s looking at the apple on the table!
Instead of putting this one into a journal, I actually put it in an altered book I’ve been working on for awhile now: