Imagined after Charles M. Russell
A tennis court with an Australian shepherd chasing tons of tennis balls around
After Charles M. Russell, made 2026-10-12. An AI-imagined work, credited after the artist and grounded in documented technique; not a historical work.
The statement
I have painted the things I know from having lived them, and this piece holds true to that rule even if the subject runs far afield from the country I rode. What drew me was the chance to catch something honest about an animal working at full tilt—this Australian shepherd tearing across the court after those bright scattered balls carries the same vitality I used to watch in a cow-pony cutting out a steer or a wolf streaking through sage. The composition strains outward from the dog's low, driving body to the tennis balls flung in every direction, the whole surface pulling with motion the way *The Cinch Ring* stretched along its ropes. I have kept the palette to warm dust-ochres and the dog's coat-browns against the pale green court and a high blue sky, and worked the brushwork loose and quick to kick up that sense of speed while holding the animal's anatomy exactly as I see it—no studio pose, but the truth of muscle and balance caught in the moment. The court's hard lines set off the dog's wild energy just as clapboard walls framed the tumbling horses in *In Without Knocking*. What I want you to feel is the vigor of a working animal doing what it was bred for, that same muscular force and joy I have always tried to get down true.
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