Badlands in bloom

We took a family trip in 2019 in a year that there was good rain over the Badlands. Normally everything is brown and dry but this year the grass was green and there were yellow flowers everywhere.

Oil painting on stretched canvas, 18 x 24″

Tatanka Dominion

 

We drove through Custer State Park in western SD this summer and the buffalo herd was moving from one side of the road to the other.  They walked right in front of our car and it was powerful seeing them up close.  One of the cloud formations we saw that day made me think about putting a buffalo calf in the clouds since the white buffalo is sacred.

This painting will be on display at the Center for Western Studies on the Augustana College campus from April 1-August 16, 2024.  30 x 40″ on stretched canvas, framed