Rattler

Here’s a quirky little narrative piece I whipped up in the studio today — inspired by a very rattlesnake-y ride I took on Hawk last summer right around this time. I finished a journal/sketchbook last week and while flipping through the tattered pages I came across this design idea I had roughly sketched up last summer and I said to myself, “I’m going to make this next week.” So I did.

What is depicted in this piece is basically what happened on that ride. We were headed out to Echo Canyon and a rattler had slithered out of a sagebrush and was laying in the warm red dust of a BLM two-track. It never rattled. We saw it only as we came upon it and Hawk launched himself over it like an Irish Sport Horse. I should have been horrified but I found myself laughing hysterically when we landed and we loped off toward the sun. It was a great night and a great ride.

This is a fun, one of a kind piece and it will be available in my shop later this week.

+Of The West+