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Pertaining to the Front Cover Asanee Chooarun Fellow of the Royal Institute, Academy of Arts When I hear the word “peace,” I think of a pigeon soaring joyously towards the sky without having to fight or quarrel any longer with fellow birds or other animals. It is all about Peace and Freedom at the same time. The theme of this issue of the Journal of the Royal Institute of Thailand is “Peace”. Therefore, I began to design the cover for the journal by sketching the picture of “Peace” in my imagination. The preliminary sketch was drawn by pencil on paper. It was a small picture only 8 x 10 cm. in size, depicting a pigeon soaring up to the sky, with the pigeon placed at the upper part of the paper to illustrate the flying motion. The background of the picture was drawn so that the upper part was darker than the lower part to emphasize the wide perspective of the sky and to enhance the pigeon, so that it became more distinctive and buoyant. (Figure 1) The picture of the pigeon according to my imagination still lacked a lot of factual details. It was therefore necessary for me to study real pigeons as well as their photographs and to make sketches of them flying. I needed to observe the way they spread their wings and the characteristics of their legs while soaring up to the sky, including other details such as their feathers and the colors of the feathers. (Figure 2) Figure 1 Preliminary sketch for “Peace” , 8 x 10 cm. Figure 2 Study of flying pigeons, 23 x 23 cm. iii