Sometimes inspiration for a painting comes from unexpected places. I was surfing the web looking for ideas and came across this old rodeo poster. I just loved it! “Tip the clowns, be ready to ride”… a classic poster really. I built the painting around the poster and titled it from the poster. The cowboy is a model I’ve used, dressed in appropriate early 1900’s cowboy dress. I may do another inspired by “Tip the Clowns…or Else!”

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