UNTITLED (2016) by Michael Whelan, week 35 in his LEFTOVERS & PALETTE GREMLINS gallery project.

I grabbed a piece of scrap board I was using as a coaster under my morning coffee mug and challenged myself to whip up something from whatever I found there.

My first thought was to make the circle into a porthole on either a spaceship or a pirate ship or something, but that seemed too obvious. Plus I had Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady” playing on my stereo when I started…