Dream Team Painting

Dream Team Painting
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The piece of art is from one of the artists, Mike Capron, who hails from Texas and has had a long standing career cowboy painting. His passion for riding and roping started way back before he even joined the school system. The painting skills developed over time as he occasionally loved to color books. This particular painting is of a group of cowboys in total thirteen. Painted on a canvas with oil based paints, it comes out as very warm, due to the use of the warm colors. In the fore ground are some scattered vegetation of grass and small shrubs and vast spaces showing the bare desert soil. In the middle ground are the cowboys, with four of them dominating the front line and the rest falling little behind the four front riders.
The background lighter in color and only shows the vast plains and the light blue skies behind the cowboys. The idea of the painting and hence the name dream team, is that the painter has always had a passion for cowboy riding and roping with some of the best in the culture. All through his life he had this insatiable craze for working with a team of highly skilled cowboys. It is from this reason that the artist expresses his desires of a dream team of cowboys in one of the deserts called the Chihuahuan desert in western Texas. The painting that was probably made in the 80s is made on a horizontal paper of about one meter in length and half a meter in width (Capron, 2014). The artist has had lots of pieces on the canvas and has also worked with the oil based paintings for quite some time. This piece is one of the best that the artists has produced yet and has an in-depth theme of the expressive desires that the artist has always had since he was a young boy on the plains of Texas. It underlies the subtle aspects of a great painting where the artist has an underlying meaning to their work, whether illustrating their thoughts or someone else's on a piece of paper or canvas with several brush strokes.
Growing up in Texas, most of the activities around the artists did not strike him as interesting, much like the idea of riding a horse and being in a position to rope the cows. School to the artists had not always interested him and most of the time he spent his time coloring his books. Later one he combined his passion for color and that of riding horses, to develop such works of art as the Dream Team Painting. Back in the day he had developed some skills, although they were no match to the seasoned cowboys. Much like the rest of the cowboys in the ranches, they did not love the aspect of riding because it was the highest paying or even close, but for the sheer passion of riding. Those that worked in the Long took it very seriously and spend all their life perfecting the skills of riding and roping, as such, getting a job in the long was quite hard as the old riders did not want to leave the cowboy haven. Later the artist had the chance to ride with some of the best rid...