When I was seven, my father set up in the backyard with a big sheet of plywood spread across a couple saw horses. He painted a mural of a barn the viewer could see through to a field on the other side. One time he pointed out a bumble bee he’d smashed onto the painting right where it had landed, now perched on a painted flower–the flower added post-kill. It was hilarious, at least we both thought so (sorry, PETA), and from that day on I paid much closer attention to these paintings of his.
We took many walks together into that painting. It hung on our utility room wall, and I remember going to the stairs and staring at it, imagining our walk, always going through the barn to the field.
The bee eventually fell away, and my father sold the painting to his boss for $50.
(Image Credit: David M. Bridges)
That’s beautiful! Your father is (was?) one talented painter.
Still. He recently had a painting in the Louisiana Watercolor Society‘s Int’l Show. Last year, too.