A large horizontal watercolor in a palette entirely different from the warm chromatic creature fields (753 green, 754 red, 769 yellow) — this work is cool, atmospheric, built from gray, blue, purple, and dark green, with yellow as the sole warm accent. The creatures here emerge from and dissolve back into the cool ground rather than being described against it.
The most fully realized creature is at center: a large blue-gray form with a discernible head — two dark eye marks, a faint mouth — and a body that curves gently downward in a slow arc. This creature is almost entirely composed of the ground color, distinguished from it only by its slightly denser wash and its outline, where black ink has been used for contour in a few places. At upper center, a second elongated pale blue form with two eye marks — quieter, more dissolved.
Green forms scatter through the composition: at upper right, a rounded blue-green mass; at left center, an elongated green worm-creature with sawtooth edge markings; at lower left, a smaller green form that has the character of a leaf more than a creature. Yellow occurs in punctuation — a cloud at upper right, an accent at left center — warming the cool ground without dominating it.
Small black spiky marks throughout — barely creatures, more suggestions — give the composition a biological density that the larger forms alone couldn't achieve. This world is populated at many scales.