Olly Olly Oxen is a piece of digital artwork by Lois Bryan which was uploaded on September 19th, 2018.
Olly Olly Oxen
A beautiful beast of burden, an ox, goes plodding along on his daily round through the streets of Colonial Williamsburg on a soft spring morning. ... more
by Lois Bryan
Title
Olly Olly Oxen
Artist
Lois Bryan
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art / Photography Based Digital Hand-painting
Description
A beautiful beast of burden, an ox, goes plodding along on his daily round through the streets of Colonial Williamsburg on a soft spring morning. Teamed with his equally handsome yoke-mate, his burden today consists of an empty wooden cart. I liked the way the sunlight, filtering through the shade of the cooling trees overhead, dappled his golden brown face. I wish I could name his breed, but my extensive research has come up with bupkis.
The title is from an old sing-song we kids used to chant. If I remember correctly, it was when the hide and seek game we played had been moved along to its next level, the "it" kid had found and tagged someone else, and "Olly Olly Oxen Freeeee" was sung out to call in everyone who was still hiding. That was a lot of fun, by the way!!
Since this image is from Williamsburg, I'm hoping that our pretty oxen friend here doesn't have to work too many hours ... and that at a reasonable time in the afternoon he, too, can go oxen-free.
Loosely based on one of my own photos and hand-painted in Corel Painter.
This image was NOT created using AI - Artificial Intelligence.
Fine art purchases of this image will not include a watermark, and if I may make a recommendation ... this image will look its very best on the fine art paper choice of "picture rag."
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September 19th, 2018
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Comments (8)
IM Spadecaller
Lovely image, Lois! "You're IT." LOL...I remember that hide-n-seek game too.
Lois Bryan replied:
Matt .. how cool that you remember too!!! The good old days, right?? Thanks so much!!!
Phyllis Kaltenbach
Congratulations, Lois, Your wonderful image has been Featured on "Fuzzy, Wrm & Soft"