It’s Sunday and things are slow around here today. We’re under a Winter Weather Warning and it’s starting to snow so I thought I would take a moment and add a couple of Blog posts from the past. Here’s one on a carving I did 18 years ago. Sad in a way as I lost a good friend.
“Standing beneath the window of his sweetheart this western Romeo is hoping that a few notes from his concertina will win her affections. I did this one back in ’02 and exhibited it at the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival in California. I traded it to one of my favorite western painters, Joelle Smith, who was also at the show, for two of her paintings. She told me her Dad had played the concertina. Sadly, Joelle died from cancer in ’05 just as her career was set to take off. Here’s a link to her website:http://www.joellesmith.com/index.htm. A great artist.”
While the above link to Joelle’s website says it’s no longer active you can still click on the individual “Buttons” beneath her site name to see just how outstanding her work was. She was a great artist and a nice person. Just before her death her work was selected to appear at the upcoming Prix de West show at the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City. A real shame that she didn’t live to see that high honor.
As always, your comments are always welcome.
