Summer Painting #6

One of the prompts for the daily painters challenge is “fish.” We have a mahi-mahi metal wall hanging that I have no idea where we inherited it from, but it has been in my father-in-law’s house in Port St Lucie, migrated to our Jensen Beach house where it sat in storage and then it moved again with us to where we live now, We hung it on our back fence.

I never knew what it was until today when I did this prompt. I was looking up Florida game fish and surprise, there was our fish! I also found out that the mahi-mahi is also the “dolphin” fish that shows up on Florida menus. I never knew that they were the same fish, different name. We actually had a discussion one night when we were out to dinner because one of our party was upset to see “dolphin” on a menu. We had to convince them that there was also fish that was called a dolphin fish. It would have been a lot easier if we could have just said “mahi-mahi.”

Well now we know.

This is another small painting on 4×4 wood panel using matte acrylic also known as acrylic gouache.