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Trout Unlimited is hosting a great show that will have you hooked.
The Gathering of the Gore Range Western Folk Music Concert takes place Oct. 2 at the Silverthorne Pavilion, with headliner Kerry Grombacher. Organizer Bob Sweet loosely modeled the event after a Cowboy Poetry and Music gathering he attended in Sierra Vista, Ariz.
“I wanted to make it a special event in all aspects and do everything we could to make it successful and repeat it annually,” Sweet said.
Of course, the event needed signature art to catch attention, and that's where local commercial artist Kevin Mastin came in. He and Sweet have been friends for five years; they met when Mastin started buying hay from Sweet's ranch north of Silverthorne. When Sweet saw Mastin's art, he knew he'd be the ideal person to create a painting for the concert.
“I really liked his perspective, choice of subject, colors and tones,” Sweet said. “Kevin was the perfect choice to achieve the feel we were looking for, given his perspective and portrayal of the western lifestyle in his previous works.”
And Mastin appreciated the opportunity to play around with watercolors and depict his favorite subject — people.
Mastin, a fifth generation Coloradan who grew up in Leadville, has been a commercial artist — mostly creating company logos and ski trail maps — for 25 years. He graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver. He owns burros, which he takes on the burro racing circuit, from Leadville, through Fairplay and down to Buena Vista and Salida, so he's familiar with living the western lifestyle.
To create his image of a fly fisherman wading in the river prepping his fly rod, with a packhorse beside him, Mastin took several shots of Sweet, Sweet's horse and the both of them together. From there, he created a composite painting. His piece, which will sell as a limited edition signed poster at the event, is “loose and gestural,” a style he usual goes for when he paints for pleasure.
“Almost all my paintings are of people I know,” he said. “The subject matter is a personal story. It makes it easier to paint if I have something tied to it.”
The Gathering of the Gore Range Western Folk Music Concert takes place Oct. 2 at the Silverthorne Pavilion, with headliner Kerry Grombacher. Organizer Bob Sweet loosely modeled the event after a Cowboy Poetry and Music gathering he attended in Sierra Vista, Ariz.
“I wanted to make it a special event in all aspects and do everything we could to make it successful and repeat it annually,” Sweet said.
Of course, the event needed signature art to catch attention, and that's where local commercial artist Kevin Mastin came in. He and Sweet have been friends for five years; they met when Mastin started buying hay from Sweet's ranch north of Silverthorne. When Sweet saw Mastin's art, he knew he'd be the ideal person to create a painting for the concert.
“I really liked his perspective, choice of subject, colors and tones,” Sweet said. “Kevin was the perfect choice to achieve the feel we were looking for, given his perspective and portrayal of the western lifestyle in his previous works.”
And Mastin appreciated the opportunity to play around with watercolors and depict his favorite subject — people.
Mastin, a fifth generation Coloradan who grew up in Leadville, has been a commercial artist — mostly creating company logos and ski trail maps — for 25 years. He graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver. He owns burros, which he takes on the burro racing circuit, from Leadville, through Fairplay and down to Buena Vista and Salida, so he's familiar with living the western lifestyle.
To create his image of a fly fisherman wading in the river prepping his fly rod, with a packhorse beside him, Mastin took several shots of Sweet, Sweet's horse and the both of them together. From there, he created a composite painting. His piece, which will sell as a limited edition signed poster at the event, is “loose and gestural,” a style he usual goes for when he paints for pleasure.
“Almost all my paintings are of people I know,” he said. “The subject matter is a personal story. It makes it easier to paint if I have something tied to it.”
