Girl and Kitty Canvas Print

canvas prints summer cat barn farm cards realism midday toddler kitty feline water pump shed mechanical rural nostalgia

paintings summer cat barn farm cards realism midday toddler kitty feline water pump shed mechanical rural nostalgia

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Girl and her Kitty is a painting in memory of my mother, who grew up on a ranch in the late 1920s and 1930s. She loved her cats, her main playmates on the ranch. She would play house with them and have tea parties.
In a nostalgic setting, a little girl plays with her pet kitty in the front of an old barn shed. The antique, old-fashioned, hand-operated water pump for the ranch house is in the background.
Ranch is the term common in the Western United States for an area of land primarily used for the practice of ranching, or raising grazing livestock, like cattle, for meat. A ranch may also include arable or irrigated land used for raising farming hay and feed grain crops and orchards.
Human powered water pumps have seen wide use in many countries around the world. The pumps operate on a piston or diaphragm with a check valve to regulate entry and exit of the water. Many of these hand pumps used positive displacement via reciprocating pistons. Direct action hand pumps l...

Creating portals of light, love, joy, beauty, compassion, hope and gratitude is my lifelong passion and purpose. My mother painted when i was young and encouraged drawing and painting and handcrafting in all forms and my father, the photographer, gave me my first camera at age 8. As a result, i have been a lifelong student of both mediums. Formal training of my eye and technique has been with the wonderful Pacific NW painter teachers, Stan Capon and Edi Olson. i hope you will enjoy these images as much as i enjoyed their creation.