The Painting Group

 

Welcome to The Spot Writers. The prompt for this month is to write a 100-word piece using the five words: harvest, glow, iron, paint, clock.

In April, 2024, Phil published The Body on Karli’s Beach, the third book in his Barrettsport Mysteries, a series of soft-boiled mysteries set in a fictional South Shore Nova Scotia town. For information about these books, and The Road to Environmental Armageddon, his trilogy about the hazards of ignoring human-induced climate change, visit his website: https://alankemisterauthor.wordpress.com/

 

The Painting Group

by Phil Yeats

I joined an amateur painting group after retirement. Every month, we faced a new challenge chosen by the group’s leader. This month’s prompt was agriculture. I chose to paint the bright yellow glow of the setting sun behind an iron gate and a harvest ready canola field.

I was well-prepared for the three-hour session with several sketches I presented for our leader’s comments. After pausing to consider her ideas, the short deadline to get my masterpiece completed made it feel like I was constantly fighting the clock.

When the bell signifying time to clean our brushes rang, I was satisfied.

 

*****

The Spot Writers:

Val Muller: http://www.valmuller.com/blog/
Catherine A. MacKenzie: https://writingwicket.wordpress.com/wicker-chitter/
Phil Yeats: https://alankemisterauthor.wordpress.com/
Chiara De Giorgi: https://chiaradegiorgi.blogspot.com/