Objects

Illustration for Chapter XV of the novel, titled (the chapters have summary titles) "Straszna przygoda Ciamary, którego oczarował Kowalski. – Paluszek prorokiem. – Trzy grzybki i czy się Ciamara poprawił?'' (The terrible adventure of Ciamara, who was enchanted by Kowalski. Paluszek is a prophet. Three mushrooms and has Ciamara improved?).

The illustration is made using a mixed technique (collage of drawings and pasted different elements, underpainted and underdrawn), a depiction of a crying boy, Ciamara. The figure is drawn in pencil, the stripes on the shirt painted with ecoline. He is sitting on a boulder, with his legs curled up. To the right of the boulder, there is a basket with three mushrooms (pencil, ecoline, crayon). There are rare trees around (pencil and crayon) with multicoloured crowns (glued elements). The lower part, apart from the boulder and the basket, is in mainly green and black colours.

The illustration in the book is printed in yellow and black and slightly cropped (no shadow on the right), with added elements of the ends of tree crowns at the top.

Illustration – copyright by Marianna Sztyma.