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Coffee table
This is our coffee table. Another one of the bowling ball head guys. I started doing them when H.o.p. was young, though wasn’t doing stick figures like this, but he did do those blazing suns that kids do. I just liked the idea of stripping things down to the bare bones archetype. The coffee table before this was about 4 by 4 feet and another painting I had done and we’d attached a frame and legs to it. We couldn’t bring it here so a couple of nights before we moved, I decided to do another coffee table painting on a coffee table that would fit. We had the coffee table already as an old one had been left in the attic by a previous tenant. I stared at the wood for several hours and then decided I would do a bowling ball guy in a garden as we were moving to a place with no yard and it would give me a spot of green greeting me daily.
The perspective is slightly skewed here because of the camera.
I like this table. I don’t remember if any visitor has ever said they liked it, much less commented on it. Most people don’t comment on the bowling ball guy paintings.
This one has gotten some brutal wear with 3 years of H.o.p. playing on it and drawing and banging away on it and walking all over it.
The “dressers” in our bedroom are like 60 year old gym type lockers or something like that. We found one someplace not long after we were married and then years later found a matching one. All rusted out. They are still worse for wear but are now painted bright red with white dots framing them. I just like dots on furniture. Our chairs are painted dark blue with yellow dots.
“Can we go to the swimming pool?” H.o.p. asks.
“We don’t have a swimming pool to go to,” I reply.
“No, at your dad’s. Can we go back and see him and go to his pool?”
When we were in Phoenix, H.o.p. went swimming with my dad. He loved it and talks about it frequently.
Marty now comes in to tell me that the police have come back through and pulled down all the No Parking signs. After they go through and ticket everyone today, then they go in and pull down the No Parking signs.
Well, they made some money for City Hall, didn’t they.
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