Preston Craig - Feeding Time for Mr. Bull

Medium: Acrylic

Dimension (height, width of artwork): 24x18 inches

The viewer is standing in front of a pastoral landscape painted in muted shades of greens and browns. A light blue cloudless sky fills the top of the painting. Visually moving down the painting, a strip of trees and brush painted in muted yellowish greens and violet, interrupts the sky line. The forest comes to a stop at a strip of light yellowish green pasture, which in turn, is stopped by a wire fence, which perspective-wise, moves from the right side of the painting to the left side. In the background on the left side of the painting, in front of the fence, a rust colored bull peaks out from behind a grayish barn and looks forward toward the front part of the painting, where one can see the torso of an older woman wearing a whitish bandana, red t-shrt and holding a rusty tin can full of feed grain and a small, whitish plastic bucket in her left hand. The image of her figure dominates the central part of the image. The woman has a bit of a bemused smile on her face and her right arm is pressed against her side, with the index finger of her right hand pointing at an angle down and to the left.

The paint is applied in thin layers, layer upon layer. The image is painted in a more impressionist style with elements of realism.