Watercolor Cowboys, Don Weller Paintings
Reviewed by Lola Beatlebrox
Longtime resident Don Weller’s new book acts as both a memoir and a coffee-table book, interspersing short, vivid personal reflections with graceful paintings of cutting horses and cowboys. Readers will relish learning about the lives of today’s cowboys and cowgirls—their expertise, their relationships, their love stories. Weller grew up in Pullman, Washington and moved to Los Angeles, where he enjoyed a nationally successful career as a graphic designer. “When I had finally seen all the cement and palm trees I could stand, we moved to Utah,” he writes. Here, he resumed his love affair with cutting horses and the art of separating a cow from the rest of the herd. His prose is so vivid you feel like you’re in the saddle too, and Weller’s watercolors are as full of life as his stories. “I exaggerate the gesture of the pose or the gesture of the action,” Weller says of his art. “This makes the action seem more dynamic and real.”
$60 at Dolly’s Bookstore, 510 Main St, Park City
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