Behind the Paint: The Bird and the Sun Painting

Here is a picture of a bird and the sun.

We all know the "Bird and Sun" painting because we've seen it everywhere all the time, but only recently has the back story, the story behind it, come to light, and that story goes like this.

Paulette sat down and drew the bird and the sun, and then she painted it, and then a spider in her house said, "put some black circles in it," and so she did, and then she painted some more until it was done.