by Janet Snyder
Western skies have called like a muse to cowboy poets for years. With “Western Skies,” a Painted Ponies artist, using a rearing horse as a canvas, was inspired to capture a western sundown at that magical time of day when clouds and cactus, running mustangs and a kneeling cowboy, are seen in silhouette, moments before evening throws a blanket of darkness across the land.