On the various trips that my wife and I take seeking inspirational

ideas for a painting or drawing, I don't normally have a prefixed

idea of a particular subject.  There have been a couple of

exceptions, though and "236" is the result of one of those

instances.  For several trips, I looked for old mailboxes.  I'm not

sure of why I wanted to find them, I just did.  And, I found

several that were close to what I wanted to paint, but were not

quite right.  Then, on one of our trips to North Carolina, I found

this wonderful collection of old and new mailboxes which

resulted in this painting. 

236 is a watercolor, painted on 22" x 15" 300# cold

press paper.  The original is not for sale, private collection.