A photo. Of a painting. Of a kiss. A 1940s kiss.
From my father’s drawing book.
Weekly photo challenge: Kiss
Weekly photo challenge: Blue
My submissions for the weekly photo challenge usually come from my father’s war album filled with black and white images. So, in that album I find nothing blue. However, in his sketch books, while he usually favoured green (don’t know why), I found this painting of a seascape with blue sky and blue sea. It’s a photo challenge, so I submit this, a photo of a painting. Before photographing it for this post, I had never noticed the edge of a sunset on the horizon. Nor the signature on the right.
I did, however, submit a photo of real life for the unofficial challenge by Ailsa (see my previous post).
February photo challenge: 18th Feb, Drink
A bit of research on Google revealed that this ad for Abbots Lager was painted near Tobruk, Libya, in January 1941 by the 6th Division of the Australian Army. (‘Journey to Tobruk: John Murray – Bushman, Soldier, Survivor’ by Louise Austin).
My father wrote under the photo: ‘Australian beer is best’.
Weekly photo challenge: Launch
Another photo from my father’s war album.
There’s also his postcard-sized painting on the same theme:
