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.