I shouldn’t feel bad that I enjoy the singer/songwriters of the past so SO much more than today’s “entertainers”…Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, John Lennon, and this piece of work shown here, Neil Young, singer, songwriter, activist.
About a decade ago, Neil Young suffered from a brain aneurysm and that same year he released an album entitled “Prairie Wind”. I created a more primitive version of the picture below, but not thinking, I suppose, I named it “Prairie Wind” not realizing it was the title of his 2005 album. Of course, there may also be a hotel name in the Midwest with this title. If you look up the album cover, it resembles a novel by Willa Cather.
Being a fan of the “Little House” series featuring the famous Melissa Gilbert and Michael Landon, I s’ppose that I really get a kick out of art that features the bucolic side of a simpler age. I ended up recreating my work, this time with more detail. My stumbling block was drawing the windmill: not that I had difficulty, but because deep down, I don’t like the look of American windmills.
They somehow resemble a cell phone tower in that they are unaesthetic and perfunctory looking. Nothing like European windmills; but since this was a flatland prairie scene out of the American Midwest, I had to stick with an American windmill, elegant or not.
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