There are some things that I really never, never thought I'd paint. Pheasants. Ships in a storm at sea. Elk bugling. GUNS. Really. But I find that there is a new family friend that appreciates these kinds of things, so when Christmas rolled around I felt compelled to paint a GUN! Astounding but true.
I was more than a little nervous about the whole idea. This friend is a real-live-honest-to-goodness-rootin'-tootin' gunsmith, something completely foreign to me. And I figured that, as a gunsmith, he would notice if I didn't really NAIL IT. So I sketched the silly thing over and over and over. This is the best I came up with. Then I painted it twice. I still don't think I was completely accurate, but he was very gracious and seemed to like it!
Guns! Who knew?
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