Cowboy...

cool stuff.

Wow...he IS good, Michael.  All of my family (but me) ARE cowboys (and girls) and they all love this type of art (and decorate with it.)   Thanks for sharing that.    (I had to move away from the farm too young to get that good at riding, etc.) 

Mark, start again! :-)

I guess it may depend on what you call a real cowboy, but my dad raised cattle and only ever used horses to round them up, etc.  (I can't imagine him checking the cattle on a 4-wheeler, like so many to do today!)  :-)  My brother keeps 3-4 horses and does a lot of team-roping (and often wins).  He also breaks horses for people.  My sister's also a team-roper (dad wouldn't let her start till she graduated) and made it to the Women's National Finals.  Her husband also has horses and ropes.  They definitely dress like cowboys, if that makes a difference. :-) 

Oh, I didn't take it that way.  :-)

I imagine it's unexpected when people find out I run a chain saw AND write pretty songs too.  lol

I've probably started songs with weirder themes... lol

And of course, a tune popped into my head that would fit that song.  lol

MNorman


Hmmm.  There's a song in there...

The Chain Saw of Love

My handled Behr is all I need
To trim the...

No, nevermind.

No, no, let's keep going... it's late Friday evening at the end of a long week and my synapses are spitzensparken...

I'd bring a Husqvarna to warn ya
My McCullough's fulla Stihl
But I left on the Homelite cause I know how you feel
An Echo of something I guess that I knew,
When Poulan a stump...


oh, never mind. Anybody want to pick this up?

Wow! It's actually a little weird for me to read your posts about Cowboys and I realize that for you in the US, cowboys are real. Over here, they've always been fiction

But that's beautiful art. Thanks for the link Spacey. That's a kind of art I really love, something that tells a story and depicts an era in history of a certain region. Art, in all of it's forms, is basically a way of communication. The best way to experience the history of a place is to see what talented people made into art. IMO, a painting or photography is the best way to express the athmosphere of a place and preserve a moment for eternity so others can experience it too. Whenever I go to a new place (or even re-visit) I always visit the national galleries, and that's usually my favourite moments when I travel.

Michael - thanks for sharing.  his art is absolutely amazing!  the details he can get from different shades of grey are incredible!

Thought I'd share a story;

Years ago, I think it was the early 70's I went to visit
one of my cowboy friends. His family went way back
as settlers in New Mexico.
He liked to rodeo. He had hurt his foot in one the day before and it had swollen up
and when I walked in he was slicing open his boot. ( if he had taken it off
he wouldn't get it back on so it wasn't anything "strange" or unusual to see)

So I sat there shootin' the bull while he finished.
What we were talking about was his new adventure in business.
He had brothers and many cousins and they were all very good at making
money and a lot of it.
His new business was braided belts. He had Navajo Indians that would
braid them and he had big sewing machines in the garage that he would
sew the leather on the ends, box 'em up and send them to retail stores.
Yes he was the originally maker and designer of those belts and they became
a very big item....well they had already taken off...I was just then seeing who was
making them.
Now what made me think of this was he was a good artist.
While we were talking I remember admiring this full cut of leather hanging
on the wall above the couch. He had hand-tooled a branding scene on it.
Very detailed and life-like.
I guess it's kinda funny that their are folks you'd never suspect or expect to have
such an amazing amount of artistic abilities. He was one.

Wow!  I bet most people that see one of his prints for the first time would think he does black and white photos!  Amazing detail... 

I will never complain about hand-entering MIDI drum parts again!  (Ok, well, I'll try not to anyway...  )