I am a painter of steampunk and fantasy art, and I teach classes at The Art Store. For the poster I referenced their logo, which is white art tools on a red circle. I made the tools appear black and white, the way the store used to be painted in vertical black and white stripes. Then I included the building on a warped canvas with its new colors of black and red.

The poem speaks about things coming alive from the canvas, so I painted vines, a tree, a dragon, a mermaid, a snail, a polar bear, an octopus, an elf and a bird. For more whimsy, I had the artist’s brush drip green paint onto the parking lot rather than the canvas, and the vines wrapping around the brush as if they are influencing the outcome of the painting.