Jack and Alden Loucks are part of a long history of dryland farmers still living in Carrizo Plain, California. Their family have worked these lands for over 100 years through the Old West. "Brenda" is Jack's daughter, she has asked me about moving there and teaching artschool to their residents for about two years now. She speaks about her Grandfathers multiple acres, landscape and industry, wild Plain insects, reptiles, BIRDS: (Red-winged Blackbirds, Loggerhead Shrikes, Vesper Sparrows, Dark-eyed Junco's, Rock Wren's, Ferruginous Hawk's, etc.). She mentions the unique lifestyle and history, also the still existing "unsurpassed" country environment.. she even says she will train me and help in purchasing the horses I have often inquired about. One of the prominent parts of her interesting familial dedications is the sowing and harvesting of golden edible grain wheat. This is a painting I did for her father of one of the wooden plows, tractor and trucks he and his brother Alden once utilized. The actual mechanisms are still found there, the wheat fields still produce, the times have now changed* I was offered a research vacation to meet with them, converse and view the Plain... I just don't ever picture myself moving there... Uhh, my city kids and Pacific rattlersnakes don't coincide very well. LOL* 1) The canvas was hand-painted in acrylics and airbrush, I placed the figures in last, and finally glued actual wheat to the bottom sections for better perspective and 3D effect. (AJ) HR 2007