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The initial inspiration for this icon set is the song "The Artist" by Big Rude Jake (Bio: http://maplemusic.com/artists/brj/bio.asp ). If you have heard the song I think you'll draw a connection, though I have tried to avoid offending anyone and have excluded any drawings depicting religious objects. When I was 4 or 5 years old my family spent the night at my grandmother and grandfather's house, which was a cottage in a pine tree forest near Hanover, Ontario. Sometime that night I woke up and my gaze fell on the night sky outside the bedroom window. I remember clearly seeing a shooting star briefly arc above the pine trees and then I fell back to sleep. The "shooting star" icon is composed from that personal memory.

Piracy on the high seas is mutually outlawed by all the world's major nations but the drama and adventure of those who sailed under the Jolly Roger's colors inspires our imaginations to this day! This set started out small - just one icon, "Map of Pirate Island". But I soon had other ideas and the set the grew. Some of these icons were quite complicated and I illustrated them at a much larger size than is presented in the finished product - the work you see took about 40 hours to create from start to finish, but I had fun and I'm very happy with the finished artwork.