Piney woods-Big sky

The night at the fairy ball and the skin of the Maid-of-the-Sea sing the ballad that I am clan Morrison. Cutting down cardboard boxes for drawing materials say I am an artist. I was born and raised on the edge of East Texas.  I went coming among the pines. My dad was in oil as a chemist there was a humongous statue of Sam Houston in Huntsville, but more than that there are pine trees sixty foot tall. I learn to draw there and ironically was the lowest in the class. People take art seriously in Texas. I cryed when I had to leave for the North . I still hate snow and cold. One said thing was that urban sprawl from Houston was tearing down the trees. I like leather.

Most people don’t think of East Texas as big sky, but by every fake lake is big sky.the clouds are for the high rainfall but also as East Texans have a shadow of how Texan they really are.   In the bottom left corner, there is an oil well. The trees are for the lop lolly pine forest making its other name “Piny Woods.”  The oil well called the “grasshopper” is one of the dominant industries for the region makes the small East Texas city of Humble a nationally known. (The company is now called Exxon. When the mayor of Humble was ask if the name of the city would change with the company , he answered, “H* no!”)  The hill that the trees are on is shaped like the Alamo because the furthest south of the Piny Woods with San Jacinto where Texas won its freedom.  It is 5.5” x 8.5,” drawn with pastels and completed recently. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@gmail.com to order.