Looking Up
This digital painting of a cowboy in a predicament is published by a national company as a greeting card and other gift products (mugs, magnets, t-shirts, etc.)
The card has a verse inside “hope things are looking up,” a satirical greeting of hope and well wishes to anyone going through tough times.
Whether in a western setting, humorous or serious, it is a look at the way life sometimes puts us at odds with seemingly impossible situations… you either laugh or cry, and pray like crazy.
Now available as a print.
Nate Owens
My Web Site
Looking Up belongs to the following groups:
Horse and Rider , Humorous Illustrations ( NO PHOTOGRAPHY ) and Humour Captured Available for sale asMatted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Framed Prints and Posters

Cimmerrian
Great !!! Love the detail !
Kathryn Pedroza
Wonderful work!!
BubbleDoll
congrats nate on being this week’s featured artist / designer :)
Steven Novak
Great work Nate. You’ve got a wonderful clean style to all of your work.
Brad Hutchings
Very clever work!! Really like it :)
Anastasiia Kuc...
congrATtulations!!))))
Nate Owens
Thanks ychty…
I’ve been doing art for this publisher since 1980. Most has been on cards, but quite a few have been on magnets, cups, notepads. They did shirts for a short time. I couldn’t begin to guess how many different pieces of my art they have published in their product lines. I’m far from being their most prolific artist. Some my other pieces are at http://www.nateowens.com (supposed to be able to make this text linkable, but haven’t figured that part out yet.. sorry)
Mugsy
This image is beyond awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
Biker
This one is just superb! Well done Nate! Love the vultures expression. Great detail as has been said already!! I expect that poor cowboy’s day ain’t gonna get much worse.
jacqi
Brilliant. So many perils for that poor old cowboy.
oksancia
Congratulations! Really great work! :)
EnPassant
This cracked me up Nate, particularly as I am a rockclimber when I get the time.
biss13
Great! Really motivational :)
dubiana
its adorable!!!!!!!!!!
Ilunia Felczer
your work is wonderful…
atomikboy
Digital!!!....What the…...(Expletives deleted)
mrana
oh my this is extremely cool! Wonderful!
hilarydougill
Fabulous!!! wonderful imagery and beautifully humourous. Great imagination. Your work is so special!!!
cheetaah
ow so nice, you can do story/comic book.
Nate Owens
Thanks again so much for the gracious comments.
Don’t think I would want to do comic book work… too much of the same thing – I like to do ‘em and keep moving ahead.
You guys are makin’ me blush… =8^)
Mariaan Krog
Fabulous! So funny, and ironically, so true!!
Carla Jandelle...
hehe…ooooh my! this so fits my sort of life…lol u know…..i’ve seen more buzzards lately flying around…starting to make me nervous. hmmm
Thornburgart
Fantastic work!! Would this National Co. be “Leaning Tree” ?
Nate Owens replied
Yessir… Leanin’ Tree – doing art for them for 28 years now.
Thanks.
Anastasiia Kuc...
WOW! this illustration is an avatar in 2 groups! Congrats!
Noel Elliot
really like all your work
adgray
Hilarious!!! :o)
Could be worse … could be raining! :o)
Wonderful art and philosophy mate :o)
B R A V O !!! :o)
Lisa Weber
OUTSTANDING WORK! CONGRATS!
David owens
funny….HEy same last name sweet!
Rosemaree
This is wondeful Nate… Can just see my cowboy gettin into this sort of trouble…lol
skyhorse
Nate, this has been a favourite image of mine for a long time now, so really happy to find it here on RB – great art !!!
funkyfacestudio
Awesome artwork !
carriagedrive
NAte I got this card for my mother during her last year on earth and she laughed so hard!! THANK YOU!!! from ‘CarriageDrive’s ‘PonyLady”