TITLE: Hockley County Spring 1
H:6” x W:8” on 140 lb cellulose watercolor paper
"Childhood home" is a stretch. I made it to Sundown, Texas in time for my last two years of High School then I was off to college. Still, two years is plenty of time for the dry, flat Llano Estacado to make a big impression. Just ask Francisco Coronado. Without telephone poles, oil wells, houses and buildings, and other man-made features the landscape would be a a flat brown field topped with a blue sky... it would look kind of like a Mark Rothko painting.
But the sky! It's so big out there. You get to see the storms develop long before they hit you.
It is home.