Monday, September 16, 2013

The Winged Cowboy Hat to End All Winged Cowboy Hats

September 16, 2013
  I buckled down and did a bunch of artwork this past weekend. Did a dozen whipouts of clouds including this little nocturn:



Daily Whipout, "Bisti Badman, Midnite Storm Rider"

  John McWilliams has some of the best Texas Rangers photos of anyone and his collection is coming up for auction on September 21, in Dallas. Included in the items is this very early photo—c. 1854—some historians have claimed the winged cowboy hat never existed in the real Old West and this photo shows the lie to that claim.

 
The Winged Cowboy Hat to End All Winged Cowboy Hats

Did this portrait of Kid Curry last year. Tried to capture his visage but I'm not sure I got him.

 
Daily Whipout, "Kid Curry"

"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth."
—John Singer Sargent