Sitting Bull

This is a watercolor and gouache painting of Sitting Bull.  I was experimenting with the gouache paint which I think is more intense than regular watercolor paint.  Sitting Bull was a Lakota Medicine Man.  He had a vision of what many interpret to have been the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn, three weeks before the actual battle took place.  He was later killed by Indian agency police as they attempted to arrest him when it was feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement.