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This painting was started as a project at an Airbrush seminar that I attended in San Francisco. The man in the painting is Quanah Parker. He was one of the last free chiefs of the Comanche Tribe .I decided to paint a picture of Quanah Parker because there are many photos of him, and a few painted portraits, but I had never seen a portrait that I felt really captured his spirit.

His mother was a white woman that had been kidnapped by the Comanches as a 9 year old child. Cynthia Ann Parker grew up with the tribe and conformed to their ways. As a young woman, she married the chief Peta Nokona.

As the white settlers and the cavalry set westward, Quanah took his band and resisted as long as they could. Cynthia Ann Parker known to the people as “Nadua” and her child, “Prairie Flower” had been re-captured by the white settlers during a raid. Her baby daughter soon died of pneumonia. Cynthia -Ann died in her new “captivity” of a broken heart and a broken spirit Even though Quanah was a “half-breed”, his heart was Comanche. When it was apparent that there was no possible victory, Quanah surrendered his people with a heavy heart.

After understanding his mother’s history, Quanah decided that, if his mother was able to learn and adjust to the ways of “The People”, he could find a way to help his people adjust to the new unfamiliar ways of the “White Man”. He was instrumental in helping his tribe get used to the new life and be treated fairly. He grew to understand and participate in the new ways of justice and commerce.

As I created this painting, I put my heart into it. Quanah Parker happens to be my great- great grandfather. There were times during the creation of this piece that I felt our spirits touch. All lithographs are signed and numbered

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This piece was started as an Airbrush Demonstration for Aaron Brothers. The image was from a photograph that I took of an old friendly giraffe named “Tall Paul” at the Arbuckle Wilderness Park in Oklahoma. The medium is acrylic airbrush and colored pencil. The lower grey area symbolizes a cityscape that has been polluted with buildings and smog, hence the name “Rising Above”-go figure.
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