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This painting is my first miniature. The size is 7” x 5”. This is Stan Bearpaw. Stan is a friend and neighbor from Cody, WY. He is a full-blooded Cherokee and he is the great, great, great nephew of the famous Indian Outlaw, Ned Christie.
This painting is traditional oils on Realgesso Masonite. Here is version one. On day one, I painted in the sky background.
This is day two. I have roughed in the feathers and hair on his head dress, along with the upper part of his face.
This is the final version.
Thanks for riding along. Stay tuned, there are many more of my works in progress to come. Denny |
Posts Tagged ‘Western Art’
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
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This is Danny Reyes from the Cheyenne Nation.
This painting is traditional oils on Ampersand Gessobord Masonite. The finished size is 11″ x 14″. Here is version one. On day one, I painted in all the dark areas.
This is day two. I have laid in the base coat for the upper head feathers.
Day three. Here I painted the base coat on his face.
Day four. I spent the entire day roughing in his porcupine quill collar/chest plate and ear rings plus I added more detail to his face.
This is the final version. I finished detailing out his upper feathers, painted in David’s collar feathers and lastly, I signed it. I wanted to point out something in this painting that I didn’t notice until after I was about half way through the painting. If you look closely, check out the gold shape on David’s face. It is very cleverly painted to represent a crescent moon using his actual eye and nose, giving us the title that Andrew and I came up with, Cheyenne Moon.
Here are two close-ups of my final version to show all the detail.
Thanks for riding along. Stay tuned, there are many more of my works in progress to come. Denny |
Friday, March 29th, 2013
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This painting is my first miniature. The size is 7″ x 5″. This is Stan Bearpaw. Stan is a friend and neighbor from Cody, WY. He is a full-blooded Cherokee and he is the great, great, great nephew of the famous Indian Outlaw, Ned Christie.
This painting was created using a photo that my wife, Leigh took at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center’s Powwow in 2008. This is the second painting that I have done of Stan. The first was Cherokee Outlaw. This painting is traditional oils on Realgesso Masonite. Signed and number prints are available. Edition of 150. Original is sold. Measures: 7″ x 5″ |
Friday, March 29th, 2013
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Here is my latest piece. It is titled Cheyenne Moon. The model’s name is Danny Reyes. My very good friend, Andrew Hogarth, photographer/writer/storyteller from Australia took the outstanding reference photograph that I used to create this painting. Andrew, in his own words describes how it all happened:
“In early August 1992, Kim, my wife and I attended the private Cheyenne Powwow at Colony, Oklahoma. We had been invited by John Sipes, Jr. the Cheyenne Tribal/Historian. The year before Kim and I had worked with John on our booklet Cheyenne Hole: The Story of the Sappa Creek Massacre, 23rd April, 1875. The Grand Entry for the powwow was 7:00 pm and by that time it was dusk and nearly no light at all. About twenty to seven, as the dancers were making their way to the arbour, I spotted this ghostlike figure appear from the crowd in the camp. I quickly walked up to the young traditional dancer and asked if I could snap a couple of images on film. The young man nodded and I shot the two images. He later said his name was Danny Reyes from the Cheyenne Nation. When I developed the film on the Monday I found one of the two images were badly blurred and the second images sharp but still a touch blurred. Still it was good enough was inclusion in my first exhibition collection ‘Native Lands: The West Of The American Indian.’ This image was highlighted in the Native Lands showing at the Jackson Hole Museum during The Falls Arts festival in September, 1996. I met with Danny again at Colony in 1996 and we created the second set of images with his new regalia. I asked him about his regalia from 1992 and he said that during a dinner break at a powwow in Albuquerque it was stolen.” I wanted to point out something in this piece that I didn’t notice until after I was about half way through the painting. If you look closely, check out the gold painted shape on David’s face. It is very cleverly painted to represent a crescent moon using his actual eye and nose, giving us the title that Andrew and I came up with, Cheyenne Moon. This painting is traditional oils on Ampersand Gessobord Masonite. Signed and number prints are available. Edition of 50. Original is available. $3200 Measures: 11″ x 14″ |
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
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This is my very close friend here in Cody. His name is Greg Koschtial. Leigh and I met him in 2004 when he was outbid on my pistol piece that was up for auction at the Buffalo Bill History Center. The next day, we came into his store and I gave him a signed print I had. A few weeks later, a beautiful sterling silver, handmade bison pin with a 22ct. gold horn arrived in my mailbox. Greg is a master craftsman jeweler.
We soon became really good friends after that. Just before we moved here in 2007, Greg lost his left leg in a terrible motorcycle accident. He was riding near Jackson Hole, WY with a friend, and a friend of his friend. Greg spotted a large bull bison near the road and he pulled off on the berm to wait until the others caught up. The friend of a friend, wasn’t paying attention because he was standing up on his bike taking pictures and he didn’t see Greg. He slammed into his fiberglass bags on Greg’s Honda Gold Wing bike. They exploded into big pieces of sharp razors that cut his leg almost completely off. Thank God an EMS guy, and a nurse happened to be driving by. If it weren’t for them, he would have bled out in minutes. After a ton of surgeries, he now walks with a high-tech, U.S. Flag-decorated leg. He never, ever complains. I don’t know how he does it. This is a guy who survived Vietnam without a scratch and to come home years later to have this thing happen, it’s just heartbreaking! In 2010, a friend of Greg’s took several photos of him. He is Andrew Hogarth, a world famous photographer from Scotland. In my oil painting, to commemorate the incident and the “American Spirit” that he is, I painted a running herd of American bison reflected in his sunglasses. What inspiration he is!! This painting is traditional oils on Ampersand Gessobord Masonite. The finished size is 14″ x 20″. Original is sold. |
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
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This is Christina Tift. She is originally from Denmark. I met Christina and her husband, Jeff a few years back at the Cody, Wyoming Annual Horse Auction. They live in Sheridan, WY.
This painting is traditional oils on Ampersand Gessobord Masonite. The finished size is 16″ x 16″. Here is version one. On day one, I laid down a base coat for Christina’s Stetson, face, scarf, hair and leather collar.
This is day two. I have added more detail to her face and laid down my base coat for her wool coat and hands.
Day three. I finished detailing her upper body. I also added the leather trim on the top of her chaps and the decorative leather trim with the Conchos on the front of her jeans.
Day four. I spent the entire day roughing in the back of her saddle, saddle blanket and the horse’s rear.
Day five. Here I have laid in the base coat for her beautiful, weathered chaps.
Day six. I finished detailing her chaps and the back of her saddle. I was able to lay in the base coat for the front of her saddle.
Day seven. Here I laid in the horse’s neck, mane, reins and the front of the saddle blanket.
Here is the final! I painted in the background color and signed it.
Here are three close-ups of my final version to show all the detail.
Thanks for riding along. Stay tuned, there are many more of my works in progress to come. Denny |
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
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This is Christina Tift. She is originally from Denmark. I met Christina and her husband, Jeff a few years back at the Cody, Wyoming Annual Horse Auction. They live in Sheridan, WY. They own a very large horse and mule ranch. Christina was kind enough to let me photograph her.
This painting is traditional oils on Ampersand Gessobord Masonite. Signed/numbered prints available. Edition of 150. Original is available. $3,800 Measures: 16″ x 16″ |
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
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This fine young man is Native American, Jay Eagle from Bullhead, South Dakota. Jay is Hunkpapa/Oglala Lakota.
This painting is traditional oils on Ampersand Gessobord Masonite. The finished size is 16″ x 16″. Here is version one. On day one, I laid down a base coat for Jay’s face.
This is day two. I have added some detail to his face and laid down my base coat for Jay’s leather bonnet straps, neck and the top of his cloth necklace that holds a feathered pendent that is just out of the picture.
Day three. Here I added the cloth that is wrapped around his long hair braids. I also roughed in the feather cluster on his left shoulder.
Day four. I spent the entire day roughing in all the feathers in his bonnet and more detail to his face.
This is the final version. I finished detailing out his bonnet feathers, painted in the off-white background and lastly, I signed it.
Here are two close-ups of my final version to show all the detail.
Thanks for riding along. Stay tuned, there are many more of my works in progress to come. Denny |
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
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This fine young man is Native American, Jay Eagle from Bullhead, South Dakota. Jay is Hunkpapa/Oglala Lakota and lives on the Standing Rock Reservation. My good friend Andrew Hogarth from Sydney, Australia that is a world-famous photographer, took the first-class photograph that I am using for my reference. His work has appeared in many, many national publications. Matter of fact, the photo has graced several magazine covers and other publications. This photo of Jay was taken in 1996 at the annual Crow Fair on land surrounding the Little Big Horn River near Billings, Montana. With regards to his powwow dancing, Jay has won close to two hundred 1st, 2nd and 3rd place awards. Jay still has all the envelopes that his prize money was handed to him on those particular days.
I also want to mention, Andrew has been asked many times by many artists to paint his images. I am the first artist that Andrew has asked to paint one of his grand images! I am truly honored! This painting is traditional oils on Ampersand Gessobord Masonite. Signed/numbered prints available. Edition of 150. Original is sold. Measures: 16″ x 16″ |
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
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The buffalo has long been a symbol of the American Spirit. Denny and his friend and jeweler, Greg Koschtial, collaborated ideas and designed this hefty work of art exclusively to be sold on Buffalo Trader Online. This unique wearable art is fabricated from a heavy, solid .925 Sterling Silver shank with a raised hand-fabricated buffalo silhouette and hand-stamped buffalo tracks on either side. Available in solid .925 Sterling Silver.
Coming soon! Sterling Silver and 14k yellow gold combination as well as a full 14k yellow gold version. |
