Amahl and the Night Visitors
This cover for a Waldorf school production of the classic Menotti stage play was a collaboration with the school's founder and main teacher, Njeri McGillicuddy.
She created the background color patches, in the extremely loose wet-on-wet style she uses to encourage student expression: three vague figures and the star - in this case with an Araura-like trailing curtain. I added the black ink and a little color to sharpen the Magi's existance.
Since opinions of their origin and natures vary, I gave one an ancient Babylonian/Persian crown, one a Persian nobleman's hood, and one the widely-popular Arabian-style head drape.
Ink and colored pencil over watercolor ~ 9x12 inches