Several years ago, I decided I wanted to paint my own Christmas card of the whole lion-and-lamb thing. Only instead of the usual "lying down together" or Woody Allen's "The lion and lamb may lie down together, but the lamb won't get much sleep" I decided for a more pithy and realistic observation.

So I sat down with my watercolors and paper and ended up painting what I still think is THE BEST LAMB EVER WATERCOLORED ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. He was just perfection itself. I was so pleased. I had to start with the lamb, you see, because watercolors are translucent and once something's painted a different color you can't paint over it and make it white again.

So coming off the high of painting the world's most perfect lamb, I proceeded to paint in the lion. WHO TOTALLY SUCKED.  I repainted and tweaked that lion a MILLION TIMES and never got him to match the lamb. I finally gave up with what you see here.

I still rather like the sentiment, though. Perhaps some day I'll try again.