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Out on the Ranch

I am on the ranch in Idaho this week.  Will be posting some new artwork from my Idaho studio on the ranch. There is a lot of wildlife around.  On a quick stroll, I saw flocks of birds, antelope, and deer, along with the pet cats, dogs, horses, and the cows (all have babies right now). The sky is so big up in the mountains, the moon shines during blue skies. Mountain lupine.  This is what the Karner Blue butterflies must have to survive.  (I posted a painting of one on the blog a couple days ago.)      

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How Pratt Creek Art Was Born

So when I first married and moved to a Ranch in Idaho on the Idaho Montana border, I had been working in finance and banking and sales.  But there were no accounting, finance, or good sales jobs in this ranching town in the middle of nowhere.   The internet and online shopping were getting more and more popular and stable.  I saw someone on ebay selling their pet turtle's paintings.  And they're selling for a good sum!  I thought to myself, "If a turtle can paint, then I can too."   The first paintings I sold on ebay - well the very first one was an 8 inch succulent plant that I self taught myself to do.  It sold for...

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