Stack short dense wax-and-oil paint strata with flattened deposits, dry scuffs and broad scraped windows into lower colours, a matte body with no glossy fluid blending. Horses at a ranch in a tall frame: three horses, a bay, a grey and a chestnut, standing together at a wooden rail in a paddock, heads lowered toward a hay net, a barn wall behind them and a pale morning sky strip above.
Light: a cool low morning light from the right on the horses' backs in scraped windows of bay brown, silver grey and chestnut, warm breath of mist at their nostrils, the barn wall in weathered red and umber strata; palette of bay, silver, chestnut, umber, red and pale blue; matte, heavy, quiet.
Tall 9:16 portrait frame, composed vertically with the main line of the scene rising through the height of the frame. No people, readable text, signs, brands or logos; no invented Western aesthetic, the ranch is plain working farmland.
