8 x 11 inch mixed media paper, watercolor, and posca pens.
I spent my first 40 years living in the State of Oregon on the west side of the Cascade mountain range. We lived on 40 acres near the Eagle Creek Wilderness area, 30 minutes from Mt Hood.
I learned to ride horses around the age of four years old. I was riding my 1200lb mare off into the Eagle Creek by myself when I was eight years old. For kids like me, we had to feed the livestock before we left for school. We had some steers, sheep, chickens, and pigs. My school money was made picking berries at our neighbor's berry farm. All the young people in my community worked on farms for pocket money. We milked cows, pulled weeds, baled hay, took care of livestock, and babysat. Many of us paid for college working in our local economy before it was so expensive to go to college, and we learned how to learn.
Now I live in the American Midwest, and everyone here in Tulsa Oklahoma seems like country people even though they live and work in large cities. This kind of art is all over the place. Midwest people love art that has cows, barns, cowboys, and cowboys horses. Midwest people also like hunting art, so do we back on the West Coast. Many of us grew up on wild meat, elk, deer, and salmon. I like the Midwest people's taste in art. I will be working on farming-folk art this summer and sell my art at our local fairs.
Inktober Prompt (Bulk)
