The History of Difficult Women

 January 31, 2026

   In case you were wondering, at the end of the day I am still drawn to difficult women.

Daily Scratchboard Whip Outs:

"Old West Females Galore"

   Maybe not exclusively "drawn" but certainly rendered—in this case "scratched"—into semi-immortality. This is assuming these scratchboards survive the coming world-wide meltdown.

Daily Scratchboard Whip Outs:

"Old West Females Galore II"

   Back in the summer of 2022, during the production of our book "Hellraisers & Trailblazers: The Real Women of The Wild West", which I co-wrote with the late, great Jana Bommersbach, I got this idea to do a cascading collage of Wild Women. Here is one of the first sketches I did of the concept.

Daily Whip Out:

"Sketches for The Early Cascading Concept"

   I shared the above sketch with the boys down at Cattletrack Arts Compound and that led us to here.

One-Half of The Cascading Collage

Held Up By Brent Bond And Mark McDowell

      Then we got serious and started to nail down and permanently adhere the images to two giant boards. . .

   And, after we got the bigger version collected and mounted. we hauled it outside and Uno helped me add some finishing touches to tie it all together.

Uno Gives That "Whatever" Look

He's So Famous For

   When we finished it, the Cattletrack boys then motored the whole thing up to The Phippen Museum outside of Prescott where they put it on the wall for an art show we held to premiere the Hellraisers book.

Real Women of The Wild West

Cascading Collage

   The premiere of the book and the opening of the art show came off on November 5, 2022 at the Phippen Art Museum in Prescott, Arizona and the show was a roaring success. We sold six cases of books and almost all of the artwork.

Thanks to the curator, Tricia Loscher, the Cascading Collage was unanimously accepted into the Sigler Art Museum's permanent collection in Wickenburg, Arizona. The massive piece will appear in a forthcoming art show to open the new wing of the museum in the fall of 2027. I intend to add some more pertinent subject matter to that show, like this work in progress:

Daily Whip Out:

"Writing In The Eye of The Storm"

 

   Inspired by the life of Jana. Meanwhile, let's give the last word to someone who knows a thing or two about the subject.

"It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult women. That's why there are so many of us."

—Jane Goodall

Daily Whip Out: "Cascading Collage of Women"
as it appears in the "Hellraisers" book.