End of the Trail Sculpture from Cowboy Museum

© Carolyn M. Fletcher

End of the Trail Sculpture from Cowboy Museum

Uploaded: June 19, 2011 02:34:23

Description

I gave it a sky. I grew up with a painting of this scene in our house. I had never seen the sculpture until last week. It's full sized and I'll include the original in the discussion.

Comments

Carolyn M. Fletcher level-classic June 19, 2011

Original #1386355

Freddy Bland June 19, 2011

Gorgeous and very beautifully presented, Carolyn! Love the dramatic sky for a background! #9467344

Jack Gaskin June 19, 2011

GREAT STUFF
I'm a HUGE FAN of Western Art and this certainly is a CLASSIC... WONDERFUL CAPTURES

Happy Shooting
Jack #9467354

Michelle Alton June 19, 2011

One awesome advertisement for cloud collections, Carolyn. You brought this sculpture to LIFE! Kind of like the story of Pygmalion...

A winner! #9467359

Gregory R. Gaskin June 19, 2011

Perfect background for this masterpiece, very nice work #9467367

Gord MacEachern June 19, 2011

Wow outstanding DD work Carolyn!! #9467383

Donna R. Moratelli June 19, 2011

I don't think that you could have found a better background than this one! This is TERRIFIC!! Looks like the type of image used on book covers! #9467418

Douglas Pignet level-addict June 19, 2011

what a wonderful capture #9467431

Ron McEwan June 19, 2011

WOW and I mean WOW!! This is one fantastic piece of art work Carolyn. I hope to see it again. #9467481

Marilyn Cornwell June 19, 2011

Amazing image you've created Carolyn! #9467482

Mary Timman June 19, 2011

What a beautiful piece of art, but the capture and sky you gave it makes it even more breathtaking! Well done Carolyn! #9467542

Claudia Kuhn level-classic June 19, 2011

Wow, cool Carolyn, great bg to show off the sculpture #9467844

Neal D. Hatcher June 19, 2011

WOW-DOUBLE WOW #9467906

Tammy M. Anderson level-deluxe June 19, 2011

Outstanding, Carolyn. Think we will see this again. #9467936

Carol L. Fowler June 19, 2011

Awesome DD work for this super atatue #9467970

Barbara Waldoch June 19, 2011

Beautiful work, Carolyn! #9468225

Bojan Bencic level-classic June 20, 2011

Amazing image, Carolyn. The sky is perfect. #9469090

Sharon Day June 21, 2011

Awesome is inadequate for this one!! I see winner all over this one! #9470705

Phyllis H. Burchett June 21, 2011

Very cool, hope to get there one day. #9470995

Stephen Zacker June 23, 2011

Very dramatic #9478839

MELODIE C. ROBERTS June 24, 2011

OMG
This is Outstanding and a winner Fletch!!

I'll bet my bottom dollar

I have always thought of James Fraser to be a copycat of Frederic Remingtons style
But I must admit this is one outstanding piece of work

Excellent Job!! #9483280

Mitch Spence level-classic June 26, 2011

I love what you've done here, Carolyn. The stormy sky is so abolutely right for the emotion evoked by that statue. #9487059

Mary Timman July 28, 2011

Congratulations on this beautiful Finalist Carolyn! Good Luck on the next round! #9561104

Ron McEwan July 28, 2011

Congratulations Carolyn a well deserved honor #9561107

Sharon Day July 28, 2011

Awesome image and treatment, Carolyn!! Congratulations and good luck! #9561224

Heather Loewenhardt level-classic July 28, 2011

Congratulations Carolyn! This is a wonderful image so deserving of a finalist award. Good luck. #9561244

Agnes Fegan level-deluxe July 28, 2011

Congrats on your Finalist Carolyn!!! #9561374

Teresa Moore July 28, 2011

Stunning image Carolyn! Congratulations. #9561554

Deborah C. Lewinson level-addict July 28, 2011

Your DD work adds so much drama to this excellent statue, Carolyn!

Very well done!
Congratulations!
Debby #9561641

Susan K. Snow July 28, 2011

The sky is everything. Well envisioned and captured. Good sky for this image. Well done and congratulations on your finalist! #9562194

Marilyn Cornwell July 29, 2011

Beautiful art, Carolyn! Congratulations! #9562827

Stefania Barbier level-classic July 29, 2011

congratulations on your wonderful finalist!!! #9563016

Danny B. Head July 29, 2011

Very creative! Congrats! #9563120

Millie A. Talarico level-classic July 29, 2011

Congratulations, Carolyn! #9563284

JO ANN CLEVELAND July 29, 2011

Congratulation on this awesome finalist
Kim and so very well deserved!

jo ann c. #9563984

JO ANN CLEVELAND July 29, 2011

Duhhhhh....I meant Carolyn...really is a great find!

jo ann c. #9564003

Jeff Robinson level-deluxe July 29, 2011

You did a Great job - Congrats Carolyn!! #9564152

Courtenay Vanderbilt July 29, 2011

Wow! Congrats on this awesome Finalist, Carolyn! #9564722

Chris Budny level-deluxe July 29, 2011

What a transformation! Congratulations! #9564730

Diane E. Deming level-classic July 29, 2011

A beautiful shot. I love it! Congratulations on your finalist. #9564733

Bojan Bencic level-classic July 29, 2011

Congratulations on your finalist, Carolyn. #9564888

Debra R. Harder July 29, 2011

This is an amazing image, Carolyn! Huge congratulations on your BRILLIANT finalist! Deb #9566566

Mitch Spence level-classic July 30, 2011

Congratulations, Carolyn, on the finalist and on your great presentation of this powerful statue. #9569438

Mary K. Robison July 31, 2011

Stunning sculpture, Carolyn, and your creative image of it is superb.
Congratulations on your exceptional Finalist! #9570950

Boyd L. Alexander July 31, 2011

Wow! Very powerful image! Way to go Carolyn...congratulations on this super Finalist!!! #9571157

Merna L. Nobile July 31, 2011


Imagine it. Feel it. Receive it. Congratulations, your entry was very special and thanks for sharing it with all of us. Merna Nobile
#9572533


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