The Dolphin and the Crab were Friends

I did this painting as an illustration for a children's book around 1992. Being intended as an illustration it was painted on clear acetate over a pencil sketch, which proves layers were not invented by Adobe. :)

Well it's bit different than my usual work, but I thought I'd put it in my daily painting blog since it's interesting to put something different in, and because I haven't been doing quite so many paintings lately because I have been busy making some of my designs, illustrations and paintings available on various products including Posters, framed prints, greetings cards on a new custom products site called Zazzle.com

So that's another reason why I hunted out this illustration. I thought it would make a nice greetings card So I have made it available both as a greetings card and as a small print

The picture on the left is how it might look as a framed print. Although there are millions of other ways to frame it. :)

Bananas. Oil on Board. 4.5ins x 6ins

My Mother came to visit me last Thursday and brought these two wonderful bannanas, I thought they'd make a nice subject for a painting. Actually they do also kind of remind me of dolphins and I did wonder in a moment of Surrealism whether "The Dolphins have gone Bananas" would make a better title. of course it would probably sound even more Surreal in French. Perhaps Ce n'est pas un poisson (this is not a fish) would work better :)

This painting is 4.5ins x 6ins and painted Oil on Board.