Once Bitten, Twice Shy
one of Aesop's Fables

A house was overrun with mice. A cat which discovered this went there and caught and ate them one by one.

These continual losses scared the survivors into their holes, where
the cat could no longer get at them. So he decided that he must entice them out somehow.

He climbed up the wall, hung himself on a peg, and shammed dead...

But one of the mice, peeping out and seeing him, said:
'It's no use, my friend; I'll keep out of your way, even if you do turn yourself into a sack.'

Media: Gouache and Photoshop

Completed: October 2007

This is my response to a Narrative brief I received in uni, where we were asked to create
three illustrations to narrate one of Aesop's fables. The moral to this one is that wise people
learn from previous mistakes and arent fooled easily the second time.