This picture has had a history. It was based on a novel I wrote about a vampire-like character. I asked my neighbour - who's a naive artist - if she'd do a picture of a rose dripping blood into a puddle on the ground from which a man with long black hair is peering. heh She managed to do it. I loved her painting, but I wanted a more realistic picture of the man and to fix up rough spots created by the primitive scanner of five years ago. That's why I had a go at redoing it.
Here's Vera Fenell's painting:
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