You may remember from my last post that I was working on this painting and had put it aside to just look at it for awhile. Well, I kept looking at it and finally figured out what was wrong - I needed something to connect the boy and the crab. I had painted them from two different pictures and they still presented as two different pictures.
Aha, sometimes it takes longer for that light to come on . . . the missing ingredient was a crab net! For those of you who are not into crabbing, this is how it goes. You tie a chicken neck (yes, I am not kidding - a raw chicken neck) onto a piece of string and put it in the water. The crab finds it - sometimes this takes a long time - and begins picking at it. He actually holds on (hopefully) as you slowly pull up the string and then you scoop him up in a net.
Thus the need for a net in the picture to connect the boy and the crab. When children are crabbing they get very excited about catching a crab and sometimes just want to watch the crab run around on the dock for a minute. I would NEVER let a child wearing flip flops be this close to a crab (they are fast little critters who threateningly wave their claws in the air and run sideways), but I think it works in the picture. I am calling it "The Escapee" - as if the crab actually escaped from his captor.
Hope to see you at the art show - Saturday from 10:00-5:00 at the St Michaels Women's Club!
I will also have commemorative posters for sale - a bargain at $15 . . .
Sorry, it's not the best photo - just put the poster by the kitchen door and took the picture . . .it's a rainy day.
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