“Dawns (Dear Ella) Acrylic on canvas 18x24”

“Dawns (Dear Ella)” 18x24” Acrylic

This piece is about my love for my sister, singing folk songs with the windows down on windy mountain roads, talking under starry skies miles from town, and the feeling of returning home after so long. When we were kids we tried getting matching stick and pokes. These days her sun looks more like a bruise and my crescent moon looks like a smiley face but the memory makes me laugh, and I hid both our failed tatts into this piece.

I really pushed my colors, and the result is a piece dripping in the nostalgia of girlhood. Growing up all the western art that was supposedly about where I live never felt like it fit my perspective. “The western” genre is so gritty and masculine. Yet, ponies belong to the little girls. My sister wants to be a farmer, so maybe she’ll have some of her own! These two live in my back yard.

Prints are on Etsy! If interested in the original, DM me! :)