Looking
at the shading on the vanes on the wind turbine reminded
me of reeds and I began this image by making a bunch of
reeds from the vanes, varying the sizes and using the
shear filter to bend them somewhat. My reed bed led to
thoughts of what might roam around in it and the tiger
came to mind. This tiger is a modified Photo Object. Trying
out the cutout filter, I noticed that the cloud layer
I had inserted as a background was distorted to look something
like a mountain -- I decided I liked the mountain and
went looking for a suitable stock photo. I believe this
one is Mount Fuji. The image was now looking somewhat
like an Oriental scroll painting, so I decided to put
in the Japanese character for tiger. This character was
adapted from one on a web site about the Japanese calendar
and I do hope it actually means tiger rather than some
alternate and quite inappropriate word.