Ledger Art...

There is an art that I have found myself fascinated and quite interested in from my Junior High School days when my Biology teacher [Mr. Webb...one good looking teacher that all the teen girls had a crush on...including me] took us on a field trip for the weekend, spelunking, in a cave near the Wyoming border...way north of where I went to school. But, that is not the point of my post this time around. When we entered the cave early the following morning, in search of bats, we found prehistoric cave paintings. Some call them petroglyphs, but the real term I learned that day was parietal art. Upon our return back home from the weekend trip, we studied the bats [by the way, we found bats also, and I fell in love with them....their wings, so soft and supple.] and went off into the art we also found. The teacher invited a speaker to our class on prehistoric art and eventually the finding in the cave, boiled down to proof of prehistoric man in that area! This all got me interested in that art form. When I married Bud, we've taken many trips around the west and I soon found another interest in what is called LEDGER ART.  It derives from the old world stone drawings, etc. but this medium is painting and drawing...it is most always Native American.  They used to tell stories with this art form; of battles, buffalo hunts, family heritage, etc.  We now have several books in our home library on the subject.  A few weeks back when I didn't go anywhere but stir crazy, I asked Bud  "Do you think I could draw a horse in the style of ledger art?  And have it come out authentic-looking"  He said,  he had no doubt I could pull it off.  I opened up some books, researched, and gave it a go.  I tried 'my  hand' at drawing a battle war horse, finished it this past weekend, and framed it...