Summer Scene

MOTE Week 39

This week on MOTE, nother Mike bowled me: That summer, they had a flood of sunshine, with occasional wind chimes…

I took this in a weird direction.

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It was their first art lesson back after the summer holidays. Mr Lassiter had set them the task of painting a scene from their summer.

Fred set about painting a scene showing the summer view from the back porch of his family's farmhouse.

He drafted the scene he wished to paint in pencil. In the foreground was the rear fence, through and above which could be seen the grass and trees beyond. On both sides, framing the picture, hung wind chimes. The sun itself was in the top right.

Then Fred started to work on the painting. He started with the blue of the sky and the green of the grass.

Almost the last element was the sun. He diluted the yellow paint, and painted the golden orb in its place in the sky.

Fred put down the paintbrush, and studied the work, trying to think where he needed more or darker shadows.

Then, disaster. One of his fellow pupils, Graham, knocked the table, and what was left of the diluted yellow paint was knocked over. The yellow flowed across the table, and spread all over the top half of Fred's painting, as well as some of Steve's opposite. Graham was most apologetic and helped Fred and Steve mop up the mess.

Mr Lassiter came over. "What seems to have happened here?"

"I think we've had a flood of sunshine, Sir," replied Fred.

Mr Lassiter laughed. "I don't think the result's very realistic, but since it wasn't your fault, I'll try to ignore it when I'm marking the finished paintings."

Fred saw the point. The spillage had given the whole top half of his painting a yellow tint.

He finished his work as best as he could in the time he had left. At the end of the lesson he handed in his work and hoped for the best.

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My prompt this week went to Padre. I’m looking forwards to reading everyone’s responses.