Details About This Contemporary Bovine Artwork
August 26th was a "Mingle with the Artists", Art, Wine, and Refreshments night at Premier Gallery in Flower Mound, Texas. In addition to meeting a lot of nice people and showing several of my contemporary western pop art paintings, I brought along my guitar and played and sang some bluegrass music along with my banjo playing friend Jim Penson. Half way through the evening, a collector from Colorado purchased one of my longhorns. I think "Hombre" is going to enjoy the cooler weather up there. The techniques that I use on this canvas are getting the most attention from gallery viewers. The soft flowing background contrasts with the intensity of the straight-on gaze of the bull and the highly textured linework to give it extra "pop" off the canvas. The "drawing-with-paint" technique creates a texture that invites the viewer to reach out to touch and feel it, which I saw one gallery visitor doing. Hey, that's okay by me! I call that real interaction with the art.