Donning a yellow slicker, the cowboy crouches beside Biscuit before a day’s ride, sipping from his mug under a makeshift tent. The fog hangs thick. You can almost feel the wet.
Such moods can’t be staged in painting—at least not according to Western artist Mikel Donahue. It takes authenticity, riding with real cowboys doing cowboy work.
“I try to be as honest and respectful to who [the cowboys] are and what they do today,” Donahue, 67, told The Epoch Times. “It’s very important for me not to use models; the people that I paint or the places and things are real….