This was originally going to be a long skinny vignette of running horses, but while I was still refining the sketch, Jeanne and I went to visit her uncle in Idaho. On the way, we stopped at Arches National Park, where I did a plein-air painting and fell in love with the place. When we got home, I knew I had the perfect background for my running horses.
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