POST FALLS - Suzi Bradley Sheward wants to round up her cowboy.

After the painter from Bend, Ore., briefly heard from a cowboy online who claimed he's from Post Falls, she painted a portrait of him.

"I saw this very powerful picture and I thought, 'I have to paint that,'" Sheward said. "But, by the time I went to his site on the Internet, it was no longer there. All I had was a painting. He had sent me a message first, but was gone before I could get back to him."

Sheward said if she strikes up a conversation or even finds a new friend in the middle-aged cowboy with neatly-groomed mustache, great. But she mainly wants to find him to send him a print of himself and see if it's OK for the portrait to be on a future cover of Cascade Arts and Entertainment magazine.

"I thought he was very rugged and very handsome," Sheward said. "There were several pictures of him on a horse and roping at an event. I'd like to get a print to this person. He should have it."

Sheward said the person used the title "Jesse won" with the photo.

Sheward, 65 and a horse owner herself, can be reached at info@blue-wingedolive.com or P.O. Box 1562, Sisters, OR 97759. Her website is www.blue-wingedolive.com.

"I just want him to see the painting and to get in touch with me if he wants to," Sheward said.

Sheward said friends have turned up with her paintings in the past.

"Years ago at an endurance race in Bend I took a picture of a woman from Canada and made a painting of her and her horse crossing water," Sheward said. "I sent it to her and we've been best pals ever since. I always like to take an extra step to contact people. Life has to be fun."