This was done back when I was playing chess a little and finding out again and again how little I could play chess. It was also a part of my interest in perspective and a certain fondness I had for putting the owl in unusual circumstances.
This was in Telford. I took the reference picture sometime in the late 70s. The original drawing is much larger (it had a left vanishing point approximately 9′ from the drawing itself). I sold it a decade or so ago. Later, in 2004, I decided to do another take on it.