Artist's Comment: This is a sample illustration done in Adobe Illustrator 10. Rendering the image was very tedious work but I wanted to see how well I could use Adobe Illustrator's gradient mesh.I think I did fine with the roses and the stem and leaves, but I feel that the parrot was not good enough. By that, I mean that on Illustrator, the image is not as tightly rendered. It looks fine as a smaller, converted jpeg file but doesn't look as good as a vector Illustrator art.

Click on the picture and you'll see the gradient mesh in outline view.