Home Sweet Home

At the Milano Ranch in Tehachapi, Calif, five family herding dogs live and work among the ranchers and cattle. One of the dogs, named Parker, looked like a McNab Stock Dog, a landrace herding breed developed in the late 1800s in Mendocino County. In a brief moment, I caught Parker looking wistfully up the road toward the red barn on the homestead and was touched by the narrative. For my process, I used an acrylic wash in burnt sienna on mounted Lux Archival paper, then added the pastels loosely so that much of the underpainting still showed through and retained a fresh feeling.

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