Media: OpenCanvas 4

This piece was partly inspired by Peter S. Beagle's "The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version". When Beagle first began writing "The Last Unicorn" it was very different story from the classic story so many of come to know and love. It was set in modern times, and instead of traveling with a bumbling wizard, her unlikely traveling partner was a two-headed demon who had been banished from Hell. About a year or so ago, the unfinished original version was published as "The Lost Version". That story stops just before the unicorn enters a modern city for the first time. While I love the "The Last Unicorn" and am glad that was the version that was published as the finish piece, the "Lost Version" really spoke to me as well. Part of me wonders where that story would have gone if it had been continued. I recommend reading it for any Last Unicorn or Peter S. Beagle fan.

Long before I read the Lost Version, I'd had the image in my mind of a unicorn, or group of unicorns congregating around a lamp post (or sometimes a large clock) in a city park at night. I have countless sketches of such a scene scattered around but I never got around to creating a finished piece. There seemed to be something missing to it. There was a mood I was looking for, I think. It wasn't until I read the Lost Version of "The Last Unicorn" that I found the inspiration to finally create this piece. So this piece became a tribute to that unfinished novel.