Single Image Narrative: In many ways this is the ultimate sequential image where the sequence of steps taken is more important than the content.

LEFT Painting by Numbers

advert for Young and Rubicam,
18 x 28cms, October 1964,
again claiming the creative earth for the lackeys of Mammon
In art - or advertising
there's a whale of a difference
between copying
and creating.
Advertising by the numbers
is not for you or us.

RIGHT  Marquetry pattern from unknown magazine c1948.