Yesterday, Deena and Mike came back from Coyote Ranch at about three and the girls went out for one more walk, along with a little guy who trailed along:
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Weston and the Women Walkers
Got home late last night and got up this morning to work on my next book project, which prominently will feature this guy:
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Al Sieber In Buckskin (I dig those leather pants with the prickly pear leggings)
Worked on several sketches from this:
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Al Sieber scratchboard
I also revisited another photograph of Sieber taken at Camp Verde:
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A blow-up of a group photo of Apache scouts and Al Sieber.
Here are some sketches done from that view:
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Daily Whipouts: Al Sieber Chief of Scouts, April 11, 2012
And from these, here is an extrapolated version of Sieber:
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Daily Whipout: Al Sieber With Rifle, August 2007
Of course, it was Sieber who famously said of Mickey Free:
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"He's half Mexican, half Irish and all son of a bitch."
—Al Sieber