Midwestern Summer Night
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oil on aluminum
5″ x 5″
8 5/8″ x 8 5/8″ framed size
Professinally framed with hand-made Dutch ripple frame
![Still life painting of chocolate ice cream cone at night with lightning bugs by Rebecca Luncan](https://rebeccaluncan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Chocolate-ice-framed-web.jpg)
about the painting…
We spent the first week of July visiting my family after a long COVID separation. For the first time, my son and husband experienced lightning bugs, something this Ohio-raised gal has missed since moving to Washington. Sharing that magical part of my childhood with my boys meant so much to me.
I was already working on a daytime version of and ice cream (my five year old’s favorite “food”) but this nightime version was growing in my mind. The concept for the painting began to evolve as I watched them chase flashes around in the dusk and the result is a combination of midwestern summer, childhood magic and love.
![](https://rebeccaluncan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/chocolate-ice-cream-in-progress-full-845x845.jpg)
![](https://rebeccaluncan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/chocolate-ice-cream-in-progress.jpg)
Other available paintings
![Vanilla ice cream cone at the beach oil painting by Rebecca Luncan](https://rebeccaluncan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/vanilla-ice-framed-2-web-300x298.jpg)
![oil painting portrait of calf lying down in a field with blue sky and cows in background](https://rebeccaluncan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Reclining-calf-framed-300x250.jpg)
![graphite portrait of chicken, framed by Rebecca Luncan](https://rebeccaluncan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Clifford-framed-web-300x300.jpg)
![contemporary painting of chicken photorealism by Rebecca Luncan](https://rebeccaluncan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Chicken-painting-selene-300x300.jpg)