Folklore, Bear Painting, “How Butterflies Came to Be” by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

This painting is the seventh piece in my Native American Myth series.

36"x24" Acrylic on Yupo Mounted to Canvas Board /Available

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Folklore Art,Contemporary Western Art ,Equine Painting "SITTING BULL'S DANCING HORSE" by Colorado Landscape Artist Nancee Jean Busse

 

In the 1880s Sitting Bull joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. He traveled all over the country and saw many things, but wearied of the white man’s ways. He went back to the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota to be with his Hunkpapa people. Before he left the Wild West Show, Buffalo Bill gifted him with his favorite show horse which could do many tricks.

After returning to the Reservation, Sitting Bull became the center of the Ghost Dance movement, which the white men thought was the signal for a great uprising. The Ghost Dance Movement was really a religion of despair. It gave hope to people who had been deprived of their land, their food sources, and their connection to their own ancestry.

 On a winter day in 1890 43 Indian police were sent to arrest Sitting Bull for his involvement in the Ghost Dance Movement. When they dragged him out of his teepee a commotion began, and when it was over 15 people lay dead or dying, among them Sitting Bull.

When Sitting Bull’s dancing horse heard the battle, it thought it was back in the circus at the Wild West Show. It began dancing and prancing and raising up on its back legs, bowing and curtsying and doing all of the tricks it had been taught. All who witnessed this thought that the horse was possessed because it danced through a hail of bullets and was never hit. The horse still danced for a while after the massacre ended and until the scene was silent. It had honored its master in the only way it knew.

 Native American Legend,Equine Art Painting,Sitting Bull

 36"x24" Acrylic on Yupo

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Original Wildlife, Bird Painting,"BACK TO BOSQUE" by Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

Bosque del Apache has tremendous draw for bird lovers, artists, and photographers.

The cold December morning wait for the sandhill cranes and snow geese lift off each morning is a beautiful thing.

 24"x18" Acrylic on Board

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Original Colorful Fairgrounds Colorado Landscape "County Fair" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

                                            



Grand Junction, Colorado, has a typically wonderful small town county fair. I loved the bright, circus-like colors of the midway in front of the Bookcliffs. The air was hazy and full of the dust of the bull riding event.

24"x18" Acrylic on Canvas/Available

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Colorado Winter Snow Landscape Pastel Painting "Alone But Not Lonely" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

 

This Colorado landscape is one of my favorite paintings. A pastel, it depicts a house that is part of an old, abandoned mining camp on Red Mountain Pass above Ouray, Colorado. Buried deep, deep in snow it looked to me as if it was sleeping. 


 Original Colorado Winter Snow Landscape Pastel Painting

 Pastel 17"x22" /Available HERE

 Prints in multiple sizes are also available HERE

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Still Life Flower Painting "Glad" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

I belong to a local CSA, an organic cooperative farm in my community. Not only do we receive a share of delicious produce each week, we get flowers, too! These gorgeous, elegant gladiolas graced my home for just under a week. I had to paint them! I painted this still life in warm, summertime sunset colors.

36"x12"x1.5"Acrylic on Canvas

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Still Life Floral Painting, Flower Art "Radiant Orchid" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

 

It's spring! I wanted to paint flowers; just for the joy of painting color. And just for fun, I wanted to use the Pantone Color of the Year for 2015: Radiant Orchid. I loved the color and loved the idea of incorporating such a rich, vibrant shade into a still life.

40"x30"x1.5" Acrylic on Canvas/Available

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Prints also available HERE

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Original Still Life Lily Painting by "Lilies on the Windowsill" Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

 

When I buy fresh flowers I place them into a clear vase of some kind and photograph them in a variety of settings. i love the way the stems look through the glass and water. I love to discover where the light refracts, and how the light streams through the delicate petals. When I looked at the photos of this arrangement, I was pleased to see all of the purples and magentas and how the light shafted through the bouquet in places.

 Acrylic on Cradleboard, 18×24x2/Available

 Prints in multiple sizes are also available HERE

 To view more of my work, visit http://NanceeJean.com

This painting is beautifully framed with a simple, contemporary treatment. The colors of radiant orchid and midnight violet make the simple gold frontispiece pop.

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Folklore, Bear Painting, “How Butterflies Came to Be” by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

This painting is the seventh piece in my Native American Myth series.

36"x24" Acrylic on Yupo Mounted to Canvas Board /Available

Click HERE for purchase info.

Visit http://NanceeJean.com to view more of my work

Visit my Art Blog at http://njbussefineart.blogspot.com/

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Folklore Art,Contemporary Western Art ,Equine Painting "SITTING BULL'S DANCING HORSE" by Colorado Landscape Artist Nancee Jean Busse

 

In the 1880s Sitting Bull joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. He traveled all over the country and saw many things, but wearied of the white man’s ways. He went back to the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota to be with his Hunkpapa people. Before he left the Wild West Show, Buffalo Bill gifted him with his favorite show horse which could do many tricks.

After returning to the Reservation, Sitting Bull became the center of the Ghost Dance movement, which the white men thought was the signal for a great uprising. The Ghost Dance Movement was really a religion of despair. It gave hope to people who had been deprived of their land, their food sources, and their connection to their own ancestry.

 On a winter day in 1890 43 Indian police were sent to arrest Sitting Bull for his involvement in the Ghost Dance Movement. When they dragged him out of his teepee a commotion began, and when it was over 15 people lay dead or dying, among them Sitting Bull.

When Sitting Bull’s dancing horse heard the battle, it thought it was back in the circus at the Wild West Show. It began dancing and prancing and raising up on its back legs, bowing and curtsying and doing all of the tricks it had been taught. All who witnessed this thought that the horse was possessed because it danced through a hail of bullets and was never hit. The horse still danced for a while after the massacre ended and until the scene was silent. It had honored its master in the only way it knew.

 Native American Legend,Equine Art Painting,Sitting Bull

 36"x24" Acrylic on Yupo

 Click HERE for purchase info.

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Original Wildlife, Bird Painting,"BACK TO BOSQUE" by Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

Bosque del Apache has tremendous draw for bird lovers, artists, and photographers.

The cold December morning wait for the sandhill cranes and snow geese lift off each morning is a beautiful thing.

 24"x18" Acrylic on Board

 Click HERE for pricing.

 Visit http://NanceeJean.com to view more of my work

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Original Colorful Fairgrounds Colorado Landscape "County Fair" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

                                            



Grand Junction, Colorado, has a typically wonderful small town county fair. I loved the bright, circus-like colors of the midway in front of the Bookcliffs. The air was hazy and full of the dust of the bull riding event.

24"x18" Acrylic on Canvas/Available

Click HERE for purchase info

Visit http://NanceeJean.com to view more of my work

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Still Life Flower Painting "Glad" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

I belong to a local CSA, an organic cooperative farm in my community. Not only do we receive a share of delicious produce each week, we get flowers, too! These gorgeous, elegant gladiolas graced my home for just under a week. I had to paint them! I painted this still life in warm, summertime sunset colors.

36"x12"x1.5"Acrylic on Canvas

Click HERE to purchase

Visit http://NanceeJean.com to view more of my work.

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Still Life Floral Painting, Flower Art "Radiant Orchid" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

 

It's spring! I wanted to paint flowers; just for the joy of painting color. And just for fun, I wanted to use the Pantone Color of the Year for 2015: Radiant Orchid. I loved the color and loved the idea of incorporating such a rich, vibrant shade into a still life.

40"x30"x1.5" Acrylic on Canvas/Available

Click HERE for pricing.

Prints also available HERE

Visit http://NanceeJean.com to view more of my work

Visit my Art Blog at http://njbussefineart.blogspot.com/

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Folklore Art,Contemporary Western Art ,Equine Painting "SITTING BULL'S DANCING HORSE" by Colorado Landscape Artist Nancee Jean Busse

 

In the 1880s Sitting Bull joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. He traveled all over the country and saw many things, but wearied of the white man’s ways. He went back to the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota to be with his Hunkpapa people. Before he left the Wild West Show, Buffalo Bill gifted him with his favorite show horse which could do many tricks.

After returning to the Reservation, Sitting Bull became the center of the Ghost Dance movement, which the white men thought was the signal for a great uprising. The Ghost Dance Movement was really a religion of despair. It gave hope to people who had been deprived of their land, their food sources, and their connection to their own ancestry.

 On a winter day in 1890 43 Indian police were sent to arrest Sitting Bull for his involvement in the Ghost Dance Movement. When they dragged him out of his teepee a commotion began, and when it was over 15 people lay dead or dying, among them Sitting Bull.

When Sitting Bull’s dancing horse heard the battle, it thought it was back in the circus at the Wild West Show. It began dancing and prancing and raising up on its back legs, bowing and curtsying and doing all of the tricks it had been taught. All who witnessed this thought that the horse was possessed because it danced through a hail of bullets and was never hit. The horse still danced for a while after the massacre ended and until the scene was silent. It had honored its master in the only way it knew.

 Native American Legend,Equine Art Painting,Sitting Bull

 36"x24" Acrylic on Yupo

 Click HERE for purchase info.

 Visit http://NanceeJean.com to view more of my work

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Original Wildlife, Bird Painting,"BACK TO BOSQUE" by Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

 

Bosque del Apache has tremendous draw for bird lovers, artists, and photographers.

The cold December morning wait for the sandhill cranes and snow geese lift off each morning is a beautiful thing.

 24"x18" Acrylic on Board

 Click HERE for pricing.

 Visit http://NanceeJean.com to view more of my work

 Follow me on facebook

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Colorado Winter Snow Landscape Pastel Painting "Alone But Not Lonely" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

 

This Colorado landscape is one of my favorite paintings. A pastel, it depicts a house that is part of an old, abandoned mining camp on Red Mountain Pass above Ouray, Colorado. Buried deep, deep in snow it looked to me as if it was sleeping. 


 Original Colorado Winter Snow Landscape Pastel Painting

 Pastel 17"x22" /Available HERE

 Prints in multiple sizes are also available HERE

 Visit http://NanceeJean.com to view more of my work.

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Original Colorful Fairgrounds Colorado Landscape "County Fair" by Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse, Painter of the American West

                                            



Grand Junction, Colorado, has a typically wonderful small town county fair. I loved the bright, circus-like colors of the midway in front of the Bookcliffs. The air was hazy and full of the dust of the bull riding event.

24"x18" Acrylic on Canvas/Available

Click HERE for purchase info

Visit http://NanceeJean.com to view more of my work

Follow me on facebook
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Original Still Life Lily Painting by "Lilies on the Windowsill" Colorado Artist Nancee Jean Busse

 

When I buy fresh flowers I place them into a clear vase of some kind and photograph them in a variety of settings. i love the way the stems look through the glass and water. I love to discover where the light refracts, and how the light streams through the delicate petals. When I looked at the photos of this arrangement, I was pleased to see all of the purples and magentas and how the light shafted through the bouquet in places.

 Acrylic on Cradleboard, 18×24x2/Available

 Prints in multiple sizes are also available HERE

 To view more of my work, visit http://NanceeJean.com

This painting is beautifully framed with a simple, contemporary treatment. The colors of radiant orchid and midnight violet make the simple gold frontispiece pop.

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  Follow me on Pinterest
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Folklore Art,Contemporary Western Art ,Equine Painting "SITTING BULL'S DANCING HORSE" by Colorado Landscape Artist Nancee Jean Busse

 

In the 1880s Sitting Bull joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. He traveled all over the country and saw many things, but wearied of the white man’s ways. He went back to the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota to be with his Hunkpapa people. Before he left the Wild West Show, Buffalo Bill gifted him with his favorite show horse which could do many tricks.

After returning to the Reservation, Sitting Bull became the center of the Ghost Dance movement, which the white men thought was the signal for a great uprising. The Ghost Dance Movement was really a religion of despair. It gave hope to people who had been deprived of their land, their food sources, and their connection to their own ancestry.

 On a winter day in 1890 43 Indian police were sent to arrest Sitting Bull for his involvement in the Ghost Dance Movement. When they dragged him out of his teepee a commotion began, and when it was over 15 people lay dead or dying, among them Sitting Bull.

When Sitting Bull’s dancing horse heard the battle, it thought it was back in the circus at the Wild West Show. It began dancing and prancing and raising up on its back legs, bowing and curtsying and doing all of the tricks it had been taught. All who witnessed this thought that the horse was possessed because it danced through a hail of bullets and was never hit. The horse still danced for a while after the massacre ended and until the scene was silent. It had honored its master in the only way it knew.

 Native American Legend,Equine Art Painting,Sitting Bull

 36"x24" Acrylic on Yupo

 Click HERE for purchase info.

 Visit http://NanceeJean.com to view more of my work

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