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I was blessed with several hours of beautiful afternoon light
while hanging out with a bighorn ram in Yellowstone last autumn.
This 'abstract' of some of my reference material inspired me because
of the repeating curves, shadows, and framing of the big boy's eye.
I painted this piece during my Artist Residency at the National
Museum of Wildlife Art in January 2008, and each day as I wandered
the galleries, studying the Rungius and Kuhn and other masterworks,
I came back out to my easel with fresh ideas on handling this
bighorn boy.
The title is a reference both to the size of the depiction, and
to the outsize place a nice ram holds in a sportsman's imagination.
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