Three women

I want to warn you all that I am a wanderer, often on the road, like these three lovely ladies in this small canvas Tony painted in Chloride. See their boots? See the turquoise they wear? Turquoise is a good, healing and protective stone and the Navajo say it is a piece of the sky you are wearing. Tony was partial to turquoise, often wore rings, his concho belt and of course cowboy boots and a cowboy hat. The big pale blue sky is so Arizona, as is the wide expanse, the summer desert. The looseness of this painting is its charm: two stick flowers, a stripe for a bracelet, a dot for a ring... Yet it is all there.