Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Saddle on a Chair


Over the years, my paintings have been a conduit to life-experiences. This painting, done in the late 1970's, was sold to H. C. Lewis of Lubbock, thru a gallery in Santa Fe. That event began years of wonderful, intense, and even tragic, relationships with the lives of many out in the ranch country on the great plains of Texas. Maybe I'll put that in a book someday. (About the painting): approx 16"x20", acrylic on stretched canvas. The model was a warm-up saddle in a riding stable at Stroud, Oklahoma. It is now in a private collection.

Friday, December 12, 2008

more paintings

Charlie Rich, shoeing an appaloosa near Capitan, New Mexico. This painting won a Gold Medal for Watercolor at the National Western Artists Exhibit. It was published on the cover of the American Farriers Journal.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

more paintings

Sid's Soles - Watercolor. Somewhere in Southern New Mexico.
The Workout - watercolor - subject at Ruidoso Downs New Mexico.
Cow Talk - opaque waatercolor. approx 18" x 30". Depicting ranch life in Panhandle Plains of Texas.
Watercolor on smooth board. A study.

Watercolor on smooth paper. A study for larger painting.