Neon Cowboy

I've been thinking about this piece of art since 2019. I knew that I wanted to do a cowboy on a horse, but I had no idea how to style it. Did I want it to be realistic? What medium should I use? Finally, I decided that it would be a digital piece. 

I've been making a lot of digital art this year - and it's been wonderful. It's allowed me to stay on track with my creative goals (and expand quite a few of them) in was that wouldn't be possible if I was only limited to physical pieces. 

I've got some pieces at the Tin Barn Gallery and Forge at Jackass Flats and I was thinking about something that would compliment some of my other art there, but would carry my love for color with it. Here it is: my Neon Cowboy.  

This piece of art is a digital mixed media painting. The background is a digital pastel rendering of the Chisos (inspired by another, physical painting of the Chisos I did in 2021). The horse and his rider are digital watercolor. The neon outline is digital ink. I had several ideas about the presentation of my horse and rider. I knew that I wanted them to be stepping out of a frame, but at first I made the frame red. Then I made the frame neon pink. I think back suits it best - and it doesn't draw attention away from the neon color around my horse and rider. I'm so very pleased with the shading of the digital watercolor and the texture of the mane. This painting is exactly what I was hoping it would be: colorful, creative, and unique.