{The painting that goes with this is long and thin so you need to click on the image to see the women at the bottom}

I was asked by the publisher of The Women'...s Courtyard, by Khadija Mastur (Aangan) to make a possible cover illustration for the translation. I came up with this (without the Urdu excerpt), but they didn't feel that it fit in with the 'look' of their publications, whatever that means 😛. Later, I decided to add in a bit of text from the original Urdu that I thought evoked this scene of women wrapped up in their own little worlds in the courtyard. I've probably made their lives look less drab than described, but I couldn't very well make everything gray.