On our long trip

We are on our longest RV trip to date.  We will be gone for almost a month.  Stops include Colorado, Mt Rushmore, Deadwood, Cody, Wyoming, Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, Zion and Bryce Canyon and finishing up with four days at the north rim of the Grand Canyon.  Right now we are visiting friends in Colorado and I decided to pull out my journal and watercolors and do a little sketch of the view from their front porch.  Ahhhh!  So beautiful to wake up to the mountains and cool air.  I am seriously out of practice with watercolors but I'm posting this anyway.  Fun to experiment with a different medium but my heart still belongs to oils!

James and Joel

This painting is of two longhorn brothers who are members of the Fort Worth Herd.  The Herd is driven down Exchange Avenue in the historic Fort Worth stockyard area twice each day and is a huge tourist attraction.  I donated this painting to the silent auction which will benefit the herd.  The auction is a part of the American Cowboy Gala on July 24, this week.  The reference photo is by Lavender Pathways photography's Lola Hardisty.  22 x 28, oil on canvas.

The Cattle are This Way

The newest painting of one of the drovers in our historic stockyards area, David Mangold.  Many thanks to David for permission to use his photo as the reference.  

I can finally unveil this one!

This is a commissioned painting of a special horse, Dancer.  My friend, Pati, had me do it as a Father's Day gift for her husband.  I'm so proud of how it turned out!

Drover paintings

Here are two paintings, almost finished, of two of the drovers in our historic Fort Worth Stockyard area. 

More oil sketches

These are more of the sketches from the photos I took back in March at the photo session at the  home of my sister-in-law.

New work

Here is a recent piece, still in progress. I'm working on paintings to maybe include in the January 2015 show unless they sell before that.