The Old Man Gazed Into the Heavens

I chose the first line from the book "The Orphan Boy" by Tololwa M. Mollel. It's an African tale but the man depicted is not African. The first line reads: "As he had done every night of his life, the old man gazed deep into the heavens."
I used a photo that was altered in Photoshop. I was fortunate enough to find a black fat quarter in my stash that was covered with faint dark gray stars and used that for the background fabric. I placed a new moon in the sky and added highlights around the old man, moon and tree sillhouette below with Shiva paint sticks. Angelina fibers in the sky added sort of a wispy effect to the sky and moon somewhat resembling the Milky Way. I found tiny gold star-shaped sequins in my bead stash and placed some of them around in the sky, too.Little quilting was done other than over the Angelina fibers and around some of the old man's features.



I felt that this piece needed something yet andalthough no one had mentioned it in their commentsand suggestions I placed a walking stick in the lower left hand corner. I used permanent marker to darken the stick so that it, too, would appear to pick
up the moon's light.