illofriday "tranquility"

illofriday "tranquility", originally uploaded by alida saxon.

This week's Illustration Friday theme is "Tranquility" and when I thought of it, I thought of balance... and then came to this.

Took me about two hours, as I ran through so many versions of it. I think the hardest thing about representing each of the elements with a color, is that I think of both Air and Water as "blue", especially against a white background. In this, I settled on a tattered yellow ribbon to represent air. And I'm rather fond of that rose-like blossom of fire.