On exhibit at House of Colors Gallery, Grapevine, Texas.
The full moon illuminates brightly - in Texas the effect was called a "Comanche Moon." The name came from this State's not so distant past, a time when Comanche Indians raided Texas settlements. Texas lore says those raids, much feared by early Texians, often capitalized on a night light, the full moon.
San Antonio, Texas, hosts an abundance of Spanish missions of the same era and I paint one of those, Mission Conception, which is one of four in San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. The church still functions as an active Roman Catholic parish.
This fine example of Spanish Colonial architecture includes Moorish and Native American Indian influences and is this country's oldest unrestored stone church, its construction completed in 1755. Perhaps the Indian influence allows me to place it under a "Comanche" moon.