This is one of the paintings that I dreamed about while I was in Boston for a week. If I go many days without painting I start to have dreams -- paint swirls around me -- shapes grow and metamorphise and flow -- and I wake with cramps in my fingers from holding the "brush." So I don't quite know why Jack built his house in the crux of that branching tankard. It is quite enough for me to know that he did so. And are those gray things flanking the house some sort of whole-house musical instrument? Or maybe they are a native (?) plant or animal. Messenger tubes? Garbage cans? Bird houses? Purely ornamental? Whatever. This painting makes me smile and wander back in my memory to the parks in Boston where I was exploring while visiting there.
This painting is 5 inches by 3 3/4 inches on 140 pound watercolor paper. It was painted in 2007 with acrylic paints. It is professionally framed in a custom frame.
Jack's House is no longer for sale -- it has been sold. Jack's House has found a home.
