Welcome back to my website!

As summer is drawing to a close, I look forward to my favorite season, FALL!  I love the colors and smells of the autumn season.  To celebrate my favorite time of the year, I recently introduced, "Autumn in the Grove". The setting was taken from our pasture in northern Illinois.

Now that the Junior Nationals are over with, I have four other new giclee prints to introduce to you.

To continue the "Shorthorns Across America" series, "Shorthorns in Michigan" can be added to the roster of states hosting the great junior national event.  This piece features well known cattle from the great state of Michigan.  To add to the state's flavor located in the image is an apple orchard, Lake Michigan and a lighthouse.  Also hidden in the piece is the shape of Michigan! "Shorthorns in Michigan" was used as the class winner award for junior nationals and is now available to everyone!  It's also going to be featured on the September cover of Michigan Cattlemen.

I've finally come out with a new Hereford print.  Actually it's a pair of prints called"The Legendary Breed" featuring a bull and cow calfpair.  I first created the bull as part of a logo which I did for my dear friends, Jerry and Mary Ann Berg of Berg Herefords in Ohio.  Jerry is one of the owners of the famous Hereford bull, Legend.  I was pretty happy with the bull after painting him so I took the piece and "furthered " it into a full painting.  I then complimented it with another piece of one of Jerry's great cows and a calf which just happens to be a Legend calf.  The great thing about the two prints is that you can frame them separately or do something entirely unique and frame them together in one frame with two window openings in the mat.

Finally, let me introduce you to "Master of the Plains", a piece which I did for the Angus Junior Nationals held in Denver this last summer.  This past  January in Denver at the National Western, I had done a pencil drawing with a bull in the foreground.  The sketch was auctioned off at an angus reception with the proceeds going entirely to funding the junior national.  However, the deal was not that the winning bidder get the original pencil drawing but rather the original watercolor when completed with their bull painted in the foreground.  After some intense bidding, Bob and Jeannie Smith anddaughter Jennifer Ann from Texas were the winning bidders.  However, the Smiths then graciously gave the project to Express Ranch of Yukon, Oklahoma and the bull chosen to be immortalized as the Master of the Plains was the great Express bull, Spartan.  Thank you to the Smiths, Express for sending me great photos of Spartan and also to Anne Lampe of the Kansas Angus Association for the wonderful photos from the Flint Hills and to Tami Krebs for her amazing photos from the Sand Hills.  All of this helped to create "Master of the Plains".

I'm busy right now working on new Christmas card designs and some intriguing projects for the Angus Association and the Gelbvieh Association which I'll talk about later.

Take care and maybe I'll catch you at a cattle show.
Regards,
CJ

Home   I   Bio   I   Artwork   I   Commissions   I   What's New   I   Show Schedule
C.J. Brown Studios   I   904 N Mulford Rd.   I   Lindenwood, IL 61049   I   Cell (815) 751-6314   I   Email