Art Tour

We have an annual event here in Harney County, celebrating and recognizing the artistic talent of the area.

This year, Michelle had her art on display downtown at the Harney County Chamber of Commerce building.

Michelle has 2 art "projects" going on right now; her "Working Ranch Women" series and the paintings and drawings for the book. So she had 2 panels set up, one for each of the projects.

I felt the tour, and the artwork was well received. I was pretty pleased with the reception the wild horse art got; people were very interested and impressed!

For each of the 3 pieces displayed, I helped Michelle in putting up the actual photos the subjects were taken from.

For the book cover, with the multitude of horses, people could see these horses were painted from actual horses and they could see where the idea for the cover came from, which is a trap site. We had about 8-12 different photos on display around the almost finished book cover artwork. People seemed to really enjoy seeing how and where the art came from.

For Mesteno, we had the old photo of him at the horse corrals, plus a couple photos of Kigers in the wild, showing the color and the scenery that inspired the painting.

For the one of Corine, titled "Horse With No Name", we had the original photo of Corine and the horse as well as a description/explanation of the freeze brand and how to read one. We got a lot of questions about that process and it was nice to have the explanation and example right in front of us!

All in all, I felt the tour went great and I think the book is really going to be a hit, even here where wild horses are "common".

I'll post photos of the displays later ...