Category Archives: ranching

Saskatchewan Feed Truck

You’ll be wondering which province I’m in! I did this quick little piece in my booth at the trade show today, from my trip to Saskatchewan a couple of weeks ago.  This gnarly old feed truck was sitting in a yard beside the road into my sister’s ranch, and I just liked the look of it; so competent and rugged, just like many of the people there. 

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Holding Hands Against the Sky

 Cypress Hills on a blustery day; there’s no better place for dramatic skies.  The Native People called them the “Thunder Breeding Hills” for good reason.  This clump of spruce are situated on the hill above Spruce Coulee, and to me, they look like a group of dancers swaying against that windy sky.

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Jack

 Meet Jack, the right hand man on my brother-in-law’s ranch in Saskatchewan. The place is situated in a series of beautiful rolly hills, and each hill shelters copses of trees and brush.  Moving cattle there can drive you mad as they break for every bunch of brush and then refuse to budge.  The only sane way to manage is to have really good dogs. And that is Jack; a really good dog.    SOLD

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Gold Spring Afternoon

I found this partly finished painting in my sketch book while visiting in Saskatchewan this w/e; this from a trip up to Buffalo last fall.  So, thinking that it maybe had some potential for my blog, I finished it. Nothing prettier than a sagebrush covered river flat in the fall.

5 X 7″ on 90lb paper

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February Feed Ground

Recently I visited family on their beautiful Saskatchewan ranch, and this is the sight that greeted me on my arrival.  As the sun was going down and the sky was threatening snow the cattle contentedly fed.

I did this quick impression in my sketch book, and it is my offering for today.

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

Carl’s Chuckwagon

So here we have the finished chuckwagon.  I left the background white…I think it’s ok to do that.  This is really more of an illistration for a book than it is a bonafied painting, and it was busy enough without adding the coulees in the photo or even a sky.  I’m the artist so I get to decide! SOLD

10 X 14″ on 140 lb  Lanquarelle

Sorting

 Ranchers  are some of the most resourceful, resilient, hardest working and optimistic people I know.  Can’t thing of anybody better to have stewarding our native grasslands and growing our world class food..Thank you all for all that you do.   SOLD

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

Sweetgrass Remuda

Something has the wind up these guy’s tails; they’re up to more than looking at the scenery…..those Sweetgrass Hills again.  Horses in a herd are like birds in a flock, they move together like they’re all of one mind.  I think that’s because they are. Next time you get the chance, watch, and see what you think.  SOLD

Sweetgrass Sunset

There’s a  sweet little bundle of hills straddling the Medicine Line between Alberta and Montana.  A sacred place of the Blackfoot people, who also straddle The Line, they are named for the Ceremonial sweetgrass so important to them.  Rising above the plains (the tallest, the West Butte, is nearly 7000 ft.) they have their own ecosystems and a separate geology from the Rocky Mountains. They have a powerful, sometimes mystical profile and dominate the horizon for nearly 100 miles.  SOLD

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