Cowboy Dragonfly Riders

I've been working on these lately as I have had several good captures of dragonflies in the field next to where I live and thought it would be cool to put some of the cowboys I have from the Reno Cattle Drive riding them. I have strange dreams, what can I say? Here is what I have created so far.

Dragon Rider

 Cowboy Bee Roping

Western Snake Doctor

I started by putting each one in a setting by itself and now I can add all these guys into one composition. I am working on one with multiple characters in it right now, I just need to find a good background. Maybe a saloon?

2017 Reno Cattle Drive

I am so fortunate that the Reno Cattle Drive goes right by our apartment complex, right through my favorite field for walking the dog and photographing nature. This year I hiked up to the top of the hill so I could follow them down toward town. I had a nice canyon to photograph in without power lines or buildings which was what I was looking for. Here are some of my favorite images from this year. 

Cattle Drive 22 BW

All of these photographs are available as Fine Art prints on my website. 

Check it out when you have some free time.

Rider of the Purple Sage -Work in Progress 11

I made some more progress today and have a fresh layer of paint on the entire board. Now I can go in and paint more layers of color in the impressionist style. 

This is the painting as it sits right now.

To check out the step by step process read on after the break.

You can always see more of my art on my website and order Fine Art Prints.

Rider of the Purple Sage -Work in Progress 9

Here is my progress today. Working a little slower but still working wet in wet at this point.

I'm getting happier with the results so I must be winning the battle at least a little. 

Be sure to check out my website, I'm constantly posting new work.

For step by step progress reports check after the break.

Western Series of Textured Photographs

These have been a lot of fun creating and now I am piecing images together from multiple images as well as just applying textures. Here are my latest works.

Cattle Wrangler 

 

 

Cowboy

I made this one from multiple images starting with a panorama for the background to allow it to be printed large. On my website this image will print at 60.00"x 39.625".  Here is the final image.

Cowboy

I made the composite image and added textures to each layer as I went. 

Cowgirl

I realized I have some great material for artwork from my photographs of the Reno cattle drive. This seems to be one of the more popular images on social networks so I thought I would do a texturized photo of this one. I like the way the final image came out so I thought I would post a before and after.

Before

Reno Cattle Drive 5

After

Cowgirl

 Fine quality art prints are available of both images on my website.