An original mixed-media painting, on canvas panel
9 X 12", unframed
$400.00, - (plus $12.00, pack and ship)
( Click on image to enlarge )
This painting is one from a series I worked on, using some favorite, boyhood books
as subjects, books which contained familiar, tall tales of adventure or classic fantasies,
which can still evoke a bit of nostalgic feelings, in the viewers who are looking at the
paintings.
I have previously posted another of these paintings in this blog, called Who Left Tom
Sawyer Outside Last Night? In the story behind that painting, I imagined a scenario in
which a child had taken a favorite book outdoors to read, but who then became
distracted by friends and other games, and forgot about the book. The back-story
behind all of the paintings in the series was much the same.
In the case of this painting, I imagined that, after a cool night, the morning sunlight
finds the book still lying out on the patio, and the butterfly has found the radiant comfort
of the sun-warmed book to be the perfect place to rest and recharge.
It was my hope that these paintings would help people reflect a bit and recall some of
their long-past days of innocent childhood, when it seemed the most important thing in life
was the necessity of observing the world around us, in all it's miraculous details, from the
colors of falling leaves to the amazingly delicate structure of a butterfly's wings.
I still have several other paintings from this series. I will try to get them photographed
and post them to the blog soon.
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