6 posts tagged “mixed media on canvas”
A tornado ripped through a very old part of residential Little Rock a few years ago. I started wondering where all the displaced ghosts were going to go...
Reworked.
This is Baby Fear. Is it wrong to fall in love with your own paintings?
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When my dad retired and we moved to the country, it was his wish to raise chickens and rabbits. He built a hutch, chickens roosting on one side, rabbits doing their thing on the other. Things were fine for about 2 weeks.
One morning my dad went out to feed the animals. He came back in the house, cussing. Everything was dead. The rabbits were ripped to shreds. The chickens were nothing but strewn feathers, claws and beaks. The chicken wire fence that encased the hutch was pulled a good 2 yards and a hole had been gnawed through.
The culprits were covered in guts and still in the pen; the neighbour's doberman and mutt. My dad went for his gun, but my mother stopped him. He would have killed both dogs if she would have let him. She didn't want to start out on bad terms with the neighbours. As it would go from then on, the neighbours weren't as concerned about being on good terms and took very little responsibility when it came to being neighbourly.
One morning my dad went out to feed the animals. He came back in the house, cussing. Everything was dead. The rabbits were ripped to shreds. The chickens were nothing but strewn feathers, claws and beaks. The chicken wire fence that encased the hutch was pulled a good 2 yards and a hole had been gnawed through.
The culprits were covered in guts and still in the pen; the neighbour's doberman and mutt. My dad went for his gun, but my mother stopped him. He would have killed both dogs if she would have let him. She didn't want to start out on bad terms with the neighbours. As it would go from then on, the neighbours weren't as concerned about being on good terms and took very little responsibility when it came to being neighbourly.
I finished this a few weeks ago and submitted it to a show. I haven't heard from the show curators, so I am going to assume it was not accepted. I have never entered a show and not received a rejection notice or acceptance notice. There is usually some kind of contact one way or the other...
The painting was inspired by a photograph titled Suitcase by Tegan Broderick of Sydney, Australia. Her photographs are of a high calibre. I think they are very clean. She definitely has her own style.
The painting was inspired by a photograph titled Suitcase by Tegan Broderick of Sydney, Australia. Her photographs are of a high calibre. I think they are very clean. She definitely has her own style.
