Children's Picture Books - Lara Wood

Lara Wood is set during the building of the Tower of Babel. The forests around the tower are being decimated by King Nimrod who is polluting the lakes and diverting the rivers so that he can climb his stairway to heaven. In one of the remaining forests an angry wizard has put a curse on a young man and made him sick. The young man arrives in the village where Lara lives and she sets out through the woods on a mission to convince the wizard that the young man is innocent of crimes for which he has been accused.

Five illustrations have been completed and others started. The illustrations are dark and the theme has a more serious tone which lends itself to a more realistic visual approach. By realistic, I mean that the characters are well drawn and the models I hire have to be able to express believable emotions to make the characters they portray more powerful. It will take a full year to complete these illustrations.

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