I’ve started book decorations for Marly’s Maze of Blood. There are six sections, each of which gets a full facing-page illustration, and numerous chapters, for which I’ll make half a dozen vignettes that can be repeated throughout. The preliminary sketches for the sections are underway, for which I’m making simple paper mazes to serve as models for the final renders.
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A writhing mass of fleshy botanicals decorates the cover of the book, and I’m using the same idea for one of the page decorations. The passion-flower features prominently in this one,bursting from the top of the man’s head, and I may well change his eye to a passiflore bloom.
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Passion-flower blooms
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins' Artlog: 
i love where you are going with these, the spilling foliage is a fantastic theme to be following (as are, of course, the mazes)!!
I am very much enjoying how you are taking the maze of Marly’s title and using your illustrations to explore the labyrinthine mind of a writer, who was known for his tales of extravagant adventure and who used his imagination to escape a world which was limiting and claustrophobic.
Graham Greene said: “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
Marly’s book, with the accompaniment of your evocative illustrations, promises to be an interesting exploration of the human drive to create.
The first finished page is nothing less than spectacular!