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This painting was inspired by a friend who told me a story of him when he was a in college. During the summers, he would work on a cattle ranch out on the high prairie. One of his jobs was to climb up on top of the water windmills and change the oil in the motor. I wanted to capture the moment he was teetering on top of one of these structures, and how the cattle, all full of curiosity, stand at a "safe" distance, watching what is going down. I included the red pickup truck as a focal point of the painting, catching the eye, drawing it in and directing it then to the foreman on the ground giving instructions, pointing up to my friend teetering on the windmill platform.

Described as a “Renaissance Woman”, Laurie E. Tietjen possesses a wide range of talents, abilities, and interests: a licensed educator, Certified Public Accountant, business consultant, jazz musician, and visual artist. It is her talent in the visual arts that rises above the rest to provide that eternal footprint to be left on the world’s stage. Many works from art history have captured her eye, but her heart has been captured by the works of the Masters of Traditional Realism, such as Andrew Wyeth, Norman Rockwell, John Singer Sargent, and Rembrandt, as well as the Photorealists, such as Ralph Goings. Her style has been described as thoughtful and almost meditative. It is tight and precise, and not surprisingly reminiscent of...