Gottcha!

Continuing my cowboy series, this painting is of a calf roper at the Fred Harmon 4th of July Rodeo in Pagosa Springs some years ago. Fred was the creater of the Little Beaver series that some of you may remember.

Here I was striving for the feeling of action without the typical "freeze frame" look. This is something new for me and I realize there is a fine line between blurring the images too much and loosing some of the identity and not enough, thereby loosing the effect. With this one I have sketched in the imagery and developed the detail from right to left to focus on the calf. The warm, nondescript background helps focus on the cowboy, horse and calf. It is also a great foil for the blues I used in the riders jeans and the shadows of the calf and horse. This painting is for sale at my gallery. Please contact me if you are interested.