A photo of my girlfriend playing with a birdcage spurred this drawing.
Using coloured pencils I added a sense of drama to the scene by adding a ghost-like bird that seems to be perched almost outside of the cage, illuminated in dramatic lighting. Is she considering a bird that died? Is her imagination allowing the bird to escape from its captivity? I scanned the drawing and added a dark stroke effect to it using Microsoft PictureIt, a fairly cheap editing program that is easy to use and has lots of effects for changing the look of a photo or painting.