While living 'country side' I often traveled country roads - looking for resource material for painting. This painting has been done twice before. Why? I loved the challenge of creating believable subjects.
Max and Major are two Belgian Draft horses - belonging to a local farmer - nearby where we lived in Kansas. Having new Pan Pastels I have been looking for a subject - near and dear to my heart, and here was a photo that I have used before. How could I improve it? How could I paint it so I felt I had done my best rendition of the mood I felt when I took the photo? Here is the final piece. I loved how it turned out. Kansas skies can be very colorless and bright, so one thing I did was created a believable sky beyond what I caught in the photo.
