Illustration: Moon River

This week the Colour Collective prompt was 'Duck Egg Green', which struck me as a good colour to use in a river setting - so this week my song inspiration is Moon River, music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer:

Moon River

Wider than a mile

I'm crossin' you in style

Some day

Old dream maker

You heartbreaker

Wherever you're goin'

I'm goin' your way

Two drifters

Off to see the world

There's such a lot of world to see

We're after the same Rainbow's end

Waitin' round the bend

My huckleberry friend 

Moon River

And me

Want to hear it? Here's Audrey Hepburn's classic rendition in Breakfast At Tiffany's.

I was naturally thinking of Audrey Hepburn while I drew this, but I didn't want to actually draw her - I just went with more of a gamin look, which worked well for the theme of the song, which isn't a swelling romantic ballad, like most songs featuring the word 'moon' in the title seem to be. I was originally going to use red accents, but in the end I decided on orange, which I though suited the mood better. 

The texture on the punt is from cgtextures.com. Everything is drawn in Photoshop CC 2015 on a Wacom Cintiq Companion 2.