"I watched two barn swallows from the window of my room. They flew together like two lost souls of lovers who had finally found each other after centuries of searching. I watched them for five whole minutes waiting for something to go wrong. Because something always goes wrong in carefree situations like that. Nothing happened and I watched them disappear into the setting sun like a mirage." It is an illustration for Summer Threlkeld's personal trade-paperback project, the details of which you can see in her Live Journal here: http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=izebhel&itemid=269#cutid1 . I think she is still looking for illustrations, so anyone who is interested in her project should write to her. I love painting happy scenes like this, and I think my figure-drawing is finally improving a bit, too. My father already mentioned that I still must work on hands, though.