Triptych of Devil’s Bathtub 42 x 36″ Oil on Ampersand Claybord Panel I rendered numerous smaller paintings of Devil’s Bathtub this year in watercolor. This is a much larger undertaking, created as a triptych (three panels designed to hang together). The triptych is approximately 42″ wide, depending on spacing between the panels, and 36″ long. Painted with oil on panel, …
Inspired by an event during the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Painting with watercolor on the clayboard, I am able to layer color in the same manner as applying glazes in an oil painting.
Images in this painting are inspired by the ledger art of Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, who recorded tales told to him by his uncle and father, who fought in the Battle of the Greasy Grass.
“Thunderbird Symbols” 24 x 30” Framed Oil Painting on Canvas Various icons for the powerfully symbolic form of the Thunderbird are explored in this painting. The ultimate simplification of the Thunderbird symbol is a cross. This caused me to ponder the confusion the Christian cross symbol inevitably posed to the first Native Americans introduced to it. Cultural symbols very likely …
Nearby, there is an ancient buffalo jump, which I incorporated into the painting: one never knows what is just below the surface.
There are possibly as many versions of the “true” story of a historical event, as the people who lived it.
Once an artist has stood on the spot, breathed in the air and heard the sounds native to a particular location, it all comes back when seeing the art: I love that!
This is a piece, recently completed as a commission. This oil painting shows the gentle colors of the region, with wildflowers in the foreground and late summer ocher tones in the background. It is showing the amazing view of Bear Butte, with the moon rising. You can see the gentle slope of the land as it rises from the prairie …
“Tales Lost to Time” 12 x 36” Oil on Canvas A photo: a blast from the past, just came out from my cousin, on Facebook, and took us all back to “the day”… Here, my cousins, my brother and my aunt and I are all at my grandparent’s home, posing together. (We are in Grandma’s corner: where her chair sat) …