Documentary segment about Story of the Prodigal Son

The prodigal son that that image I've, I've done that image many times and it, I mean, each time I approach it in whatever year it is, it it always has another frame, another development. But it has also wonderful imagery of kindness and acceptance and forgiveness that

that uh keeps resonating to all, all cultures and all people. In the story of the prodigal son. It's five scenes that create the story. And this scene I developed from a very early work of the prodigal son. But it was much uh more like a wood

block. But then I refined it. I went in with a fine pen and created uh like a real intricate drawing. So this is the first scene when he's saying goodbye to his family. So you're seeing the raw map or drawing that I'm gonna use. Then I

did the scene of him going to the city and I wanted to add many elements in it. Some of it. It wasn't, there wasn't enough room in the the in the shape of the paper that I was working with. For each scene, I had them all

the same size. There was too much in it. So then I, I had to eliminate some. But you can see how elaborate this this drawing is. This is when he enters the city and he's so excited by the city. This was a drawing of when he's

gambling and he's losing all his money. Then I have him when he's very poor and hungry. And he's working with the um the pigs. In my original drawing, there were no pigs because at the time in 1971 I couldn't draw pigs. So they were just sheep.

So then II, I did my drawing and re drew them and then this is my little drawing and I put the, the pigs in. So that's the fourth panel. And then the fifth panel is when he gets home and all, all the people are glad to

see him and there's all the intricate um landscape and arch and agriculture and that people are running to see him. This is a prodigal son at probably with about 10 printings. And I'm, I'm testing colors so that one can see uh the where I've tested the

color, but see the original, which just like more. It was just cut across here. So I had a, I wanted to rethink it. So it had archways and also I wanted to give it a lot more uh visual beauty. And so I connected all the panels

with this horizontal uh line of, of the sky and also the bottom with uh like patterning that were all horizon horizontal. Um So that's, and then here's, here's some of the early colors um that, that are showing the different panels and how they're developing with the

um the different uh transparent colors and, and the beginnings already I had the map, but these are the colors that went over it already. I had this map already drawn. The drawing was all the drawing of the figures were was already there, but these were going

on top of it. So this is just giving more strength to that drawing. This is the finished uh prodigal son. It's called the Story of the prodigal son because I've done others and I was trying not to mix up the titles. But anyway, it had 58

printings and uh it's pretty elaborate, the um the different uh elements in it. And I wanted it to be like a where a storyteller could take it and just create a whole uh rich tale that would entertain people from it.