ELECTRIC BLUES by Lois M Valentin July 2015

This is my latest art project which was created from my dreams that had lasted over 

a month night after night. Last night the dreams ended. 

The paint, glue and baby powder were bought. Everything else was recycled, up-cycled or 

already on hand. I painted, glued and sewed, but did ask for help with cutting the wood.

The project is , " Electric Blues".

  A guy frustrated with issues at home goes to the lake to fish. He 
brings his electric guitar to play as he is sad. He is blue.  He sees 2 
huge blue fish jump out of the water. He is inspired.He goes to his 
boat.

  In the dreams the boat  is sometimes colorless , sometimes different 
colors. I painted it orange mainly as I did not have enough yellow. 
Wanted it to be like a yellow submarine.But alas it did not turn out like that.  

It looks like a birdhouse laying down instead of the  rowboat it actually is.

 I painted  flames on the sides but they did not turn out well so another

 coat of orange went on.

He has no time to fish but wants to, so he sits in his boat . The boat 
sits on stilts or whatever they are called. The boat never enters the 
water. It is over the water. The guy plugs in his electric guitar into 
his boat. He couldn't do that at home as he has no electricity. He 
plays his music. The blues. Soulful electric blues.

He turns up the volume and a school of Electric Blue  fish swim around 
his boat and literally jump on the hooks hanging on the sides of the 
boat. He fishes thru music.

Every note he plays causes a stir in the water. More fish come . They 
do not jump onto the hooks. They dance and jump around the boat . Not 
in a frenzy but in a happy mode. The man,upon seeing this, no longer

 feels sad. He is happy as his music still has life. And so does he.

Lois.