The Artist Challenge

Name: Deb MacNeil
Location: USA (Massachusetts)
Title: “Bumble Bee”
Price Original: $25 – 8”x10” Print (Other sizes available upon request)
Medium: Digital Photography (Colorized in Adobe Photoshop CS4)
Artist web site:
http://www.theseedbeadgarden.com/

From Deborah:
Remember me?

It was an early summer evening, school was out and an after dinner game of hide and seek had spontaneously erupted among the neighborhood kids. I was about 7 or 8 at the time, and had found the perfect hiding place in a niche at the bottom of an arborvitae hedge that separated two of our neighbor’s yards. I dove into the opening and flattened myself down into the grass, knowing I was safe from discovery, when suddenly there was a burning; stinging sensation on my left thumb…something was hurting me! With a cry (and a total disregard for the seeker; game forgotten!), I sprung out of my hiding place looking at my hand… There, attached to my thumb was a giant black and yellow bumble bee! Its legs were wrapped around my thumb so tightly that I couldn’t shake it off, it was stinging me!! Dancing around shaking my hand and screaming, I was a sight! I finally scraped the bee off with my other hand, and ran home for first aid! Needless to say, I was “it” when I returned to the game…