"Shade is Shade..."

I finished this painting recently. It's called "Shade is Shade. Don't Matter Where You Find It." It is an oil, 24" x 24". I really enjoyed combining the images of the ladies' feminine parasol, and the gruff, macho cowboy.

If you've spent any time at all on a ranch, you'll know that ranch people are by necessity innovators and opportunists. Duct tape and baling twine can fix almost anything. All sorts of 'parts" can be adapted to serve some completely different purpose. In this case on a hot summer day, the ladies' parasol was quite the find. I had fun creating this very manly guy who obviously wasn't at all embarrassed about using whatever he could to make his day a little more bearable!

"Just One Last Touch"

In an effort to keep up with the latest technology, I'm creating this blogspot (instead of wrapping Christmas presents) or dealing with the weather outside - currently 20 below with a 20-40 below windchill factor! I'm getting a little tired of suiting up in my entire polar gear ensemble to go feed my horses, or deal with who knows what that's frozen and not working in the COLD.

To begin, I thought I might include my painting that was selected to be in the 2009 C.M. Russell Art Auction. The painting is titled "Just One Last Touch", and is an oil, 24" x 28"of artist Tom Gilleon "touching up" his painting while it hung in a Russell Museum show last year. While I did stretch the truth here, I had fun doing so, as this is the only way I could get away with painting a Gilleon tipi! www.cmrauction.com