The Duck and the Dulcimer Player

(24" x 30") - Acrylic and Plaster on Canvas Estimated Shipping Cost and Sales Tax are not included in the sale price!  Full color prints are available upon request. "The Duck and the Dulcimer Player" is my first attempt at drawing inspiration from my long history experiencing "pareidolia"-- the psychological tendency to perceive a familiar pattern or meaning in random, meaningless stimuli.  Many people experience pareidolia when looking at random cloud or rock formations, for example.  For as long as I can remember, I see faces and animals in just about everything I look at that's not already a face or an animal.  When I was a little kid growing up, my bedroom had this off-white tightly woven sculpted carpet.  I would spend an inordinate amount of time staring at the carpet to find all the faces and animal shapes staring back at me.  I could see hundreds of familiar shapes without even trying.  A veritable menagerie all around me.  Taking this cognitive tendency to a constructive l