alternate america

i finally had the time and energy to enter the ENVIRONMENT OF THE WEEK over at conceptart.org. check it out and if you are a member over there, vote for your fave(s). you don't have to vote for mine... but would it kill ya?

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the brief is posted there but in a nutshell, "if the west discovered the americas 350 years later (around 1850) what would they have found"

it was a lot of fun, a little different than my other pieces but a great exercise. i used more natural looking chalk brushes and painterly approach.