Fence Post Sculpture

I made this, but I am not sure what it should be called.  Maybe it is a "Fence Post Sculpture" or a "Spirit Pole."  Anyway, it is just a bunch of old stuff from around the yard that I hung on a fence post.

Dave--Santa Rosa Plateau Nature Preserve

Dave, my wife's friend's husband, riding his horse at the Santa Rosa Nature Preserve.

Winchester '73--Case Colored

Original sketch.

Partially painted.  My gun-expert friend said the colors were too "psychedelic." I muted the oranges to browns in the final version.

This is what a real Winchester '73 looks like with case-coloring.

Dairy Milk Can

We have an old, antique milk can sitting on our patio.  The rusted patina was so interesting that I decided to try to capture it in a watercolor painting.  I used a very wet paper so the colors would bleed into each other.  As I worked on this painting, I thought about all the people who work on farms and orchards.  I appreciate so much all their hard work that puts food on our table.  I especially appreciate my farming cousins, Amy and her husband, Jesse; and Jennifer and her husband, Dan.