Daughter Amber Taylor wanted a digital painting of her Grandfather E.A. Autrey as a cowboy. It was true he lived many years in Texas and owned and wore a Stetson but that was as close to a cowboy as he ever got. He was a chemist, photographer, artist, rocket scientist and unique individual. The top image is the final work. It includes a photo of his face with mustache after the end of WWII when he got out of the army. The body is from a photo of E.A. with friends after climbing Mt. Whitney. The cowboy hat is from another Texas relative. After the war, on the GI bill, E.A. got a law degree but when he moved the family to California he practiced chemistry professionally. I've included a camera icon, various science icons and a few elements (Hydrogen, Oxygen and Californium) along with some drawings of violets. I had so much fun cobbling the cowboy together I created a few other backgrounds including a fill pattern of a self portrait done by E.A. as an older man; an AI Generative fill pattern of black and white cows in a field (I wonder whose art got ripped off?) and a pattern I created as my latest fabric design. More fabric designs are at
Lucy Autrey Wilson Art Fabric, Wallpaper and Home Decor | Spoonflower
