Farmers wife.
Acrylic. 24×30cm.
This painting is based on a friend who knows a man who has a friend whom on a regular basis visits a farmer and his wife and indulges in a bit of hows your father. When I took this painting to the printers, a lady in her 70’s had a look at it. Very matter of factly she said, ‘oh yes, that goes on you know…well not now… not at my age’!
Farmers wife. belongs to the following groups:
* Painted Ladies *, Acrylic Painting, British Painters, Fine Arts, Humorous Illustrations ( NO PHOTOGRAPHY ) , Humour Captured, LMAO ART - Your funniest work, Pets and People, The Scots are Coming and United Kingdom
sootycat669
Lol .. brilliant work love it.
Jennifer Woodward
ha ha! Very humourous… love the added detail of the dog’s collar! :-)
Anastasiia Kuc...
your paintings are great! i love every detail!
Robert O'Neill
Bit of a cad, this friend of a friend’s friend. Nice work however. Has a Canterbury Tale feel to it, this story.
iffymood
Great detail and a funny painting and story to go along with it.
davey lennox
awsome work your very talented
Barb Leopold
ooooh, that is one happy farmer’s wife, look at the smile on her face…. lovely work!!
Cimmerrian
lmao too funny !!!
EnVee
lol, the story made me giggle, and the art work is marvelous :)
vickymount replied
Thankyou very much Nancy. i’m glad it made you giggle! Me too.
Glen Allen
great work
vickymount replied
Thankyou glen. Much appreciated. 8~)
udonchow
Looks brilliant and fun, love the colours and character drawings here :D
vickymount replied
Thankyou very much! 8~)
tradewinds
great work your a star! ;-)
vickymount
Wow! Thankyou. What a compliment!
Lynne Mettam
Happy farmers wife! Very funny! Great artwork.
Maria Murphy
Deary me !!! oooops ,
JamieLA
What a great story with this :)
heidiypi1
Love the humour in the clever art gorgeous!
Mishaa
LOVE THIS! xx
Donna Huntriss
How cute! LOL!
catherine walker
Truly ..you have a magic hand..this is brilliant ..so well thought out..and so well painted
bravo!!
vickymount replied
I could hug you! Thankyou!
Jan Piller
hahahahah – the dog cracks me up!!
Laurie Lou McKern
how could I have not seen your paintings before- they are brilliant!
vickymount replied
Thankyou Laurie. 8~)
Petra Pinn
lol,this too funny, you are such a storyteller, brilliant!
vickymount replied
Petra. Thankyou! Vix
Reynaldo
great illustration wonderful composition love the colorsand the dog, and story Vicky
vickymount
Much appreciated Reynaldo. vix
Jamiecreates1
Love this one!! So funny and brilliant detail!
nancy salamouny
Love this one… love your sense of perspective.. a bit exaggerated. Your work seems to have an underlying pull; a curve pulling your paintings together! Great Composition!
vickymount replied
Ta very much again!
Noelene Davies
I am a happy farmers wife and I can assure it doesn’t go on in this house.lol I just love this it is fabulous.It has been known to go on in the district and yes they are true stories.
vickymount
LOL! Well…here’s some more gossip related to the painting…once the farmers wife was settled in with the ‘handy man’ the farmer normally went to visit a lady in the village, but on this occassion, he went out the front door and sneaked in the back and observed the goings on through the crack in the door. On another occassion he used a mirror around the edge of the door to get a better view! ...and the farmer and his wife are in their seventies!
Blimey! vix
Margaret Harris
Your work is great and what fun you must have doing it !!
Richard Veal
Great work Vicky.
Has a ‘Beryl Cook’ look to it.
dave allen
Your attention for detail unbelievable.I also know a friend ,of a friend,friend,etc.
dave allen
Vicky,have a look at an AUSTRALIAN ARTIST,FRED CRESS,think you will find him interesting.hes on the net,not R/B.
vickymount replied
Just had a look at Fred Cress’s work…love his figurative work… really solid characters, the colours and his attention to detail. Figurative work is something I’d like to do more of although I find it more of a challenge/struggle!
Here’s something you might be interested in…
http://www.graham-mckean.co.uk/portfolio/index.html
dave allen
Thanks VICKY,have sent you a bubble mail.
Jennifer Rowlands
Can someone please inform me what “how’s your father” is. Is it a colloquial term for peeping tom or voyeurism? It’s not used here in Australia. Terrific painting, please educate me. thanks.
vickymount replied
I never really thought about where the phrase stems from…so I’ve been wandering on the net and came across this…which I found was the funniest explanation…
According to Michael Kelly, a writer and historian in New Zealand, “the origin of the expression ‘how’s your father’ can be traced back to Victorian times. In those days any man with a daughter was so protective of her virtue that he would take extraordinary measures to safeguard it. Unmarried girls would be kept within the bosom of their family as much as possible, chaperoned on excursions, and on those occasions when they were let out of bounds for social events, their fathers would often accompany them discreetly by hiding underneath their voluminous skirts ready to pounce on any man who transgressed the bounds of propriety.
However, a father with more than one daughter couldn’t be everywhere at once. Thus, a suitor having a discreet vis-a-vis with his beloved would cautiously ascertain her father’s whereabouts by asking, ‘And how is your father?’ If her father was currently under her skirts, she would glance downwards and reply, ‘My father is very well, thank you, and as alert and vigorous as ever, and maintains his interest in rusty castrating implements.’ Her beau would then say, ‘I have always had the greatest respect for your father, and of course for you. Let us hold hands and think about the Queen for a while.’ If, on the other hand, her father was elsewhere, she would reply, ‘The mad old bastard is currently stationed between my sister Constance’s thighs. Let us go into the garden and rut like stoats.’
Hence, ‘How’s your father’ became a euphemism for you-know-what.”
blackbadger
Your painting is very popular! We all like a bit of fun, it seems hahaha ;-)
Adam Regester 8 days ago
Brilliant ! love your work !!