This is one that's been rattling around in my brain for a couple of years. I composed the scene from three photographs I took a few years ago. The background comes from a roadside overlook vista in the Arbuckle Mountains of southern Oklahoma. The bison photos I took in a nature preserve just outside of Sulfur, Oklahoma. I was fortunate to be able to photograph them at close range (behind a sturdy fence, thankfully). I just arranged each part of the scene (using the magic of Photoshop) until I found a composition I liked. I've been working on this one off and on for a month or so. Later, I'll post the sequence I went through to get to the finished piece. Sometimes a painting turns out almost just like you imagined it, and this is one of those. I aimed high and entered it in the Oil Painters of America Western Regional Show, which is why this painting is on hold (until I find out if it's in the show). Thanks for taking a look.
This is one that's been rattling around in my brain for a couple of years. I composed the scene from three photographs I took a few years ago. The background comes from a roadside overlook vista in the Arbuckle Mountains of southern Oklahoma. The bison photos I took in a nature preserve just outside of Sulfur, Oklahoma. I was fortunate to be able to photograph them at close range (behind a sturdy fence, thankfully). I just arranged each part of the scene (using the magic of Photoshop) until I found a composition I liked. I've been working on this one off and on for a month or so. Later, I'll post the sequence I went through to get to the finished piece. Sometimes a painting turns out almost just like you imagined it, and this is one of those. I aimed high and entered it in the Oil Painters of America Western Regional Show, which is why this painting is on hold (until I find out if it's in the show). Thanks for taking a look.