Construct the image from tightly packed naturally rounded pebbles, grouping values and restrained colours, with shallow domed tops and irregular interstices, every element a whole rounded stone set among its neighbours. Resemblance in big shapes only: silhouette, pose, proportions, large value groups. Below fingertip scale use only whole pebble and gap. Any eyes or nose are pebble groups with one domed highlight. Pebble texture shows everywhere. Eye and coat colours become distinct values; the palette cannot hold every hue. Every detail stays pebble and gap, strands as stone runs and eye shine as one domed glint. A tall scene of a lone starfish resting on a smooth expanse of wet sand at the tide line, a thin foam edge of a wave nearby, a soft pastel sky reflected in the sand; no people, uncut rounded stones form the whole image through placement and tonal grouping, the starfish centred in the tall frame. No readable text, lettering, signs or logos anywhere; the picture fills the whole frame edge to edge, painted right to the borders with no blank margin, no checkerboard or transparency pattern.
Palette: coral pebbles on beige and grey stones; tactile, quiet.
Tall 9:16 portrait frame, composed vertically with the main line of the scene rising through the height of the frame.
