By KAREN KLINKA For The OklahomanLarge. That's how watercolor artist Joel R. Johnson describes the two landscape paintings he submitted for the upcoming Prix de West art show. “I wanted to paint those scenes large so people seeing them would get the feeling they could walk right out into that space,” the artist said during a recent interview from his studio in Vero Beach, Florida. The opening weekend for the Prix de West Invitational Exhibition and Sale is scheduled for June 8-9 at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Johnson, along with guests artists Kang Cho, Bonnie Marris and Benjamin Wu, will be among the 100 painters and sculptors who have been invited to display their work in the museum's 46th annual show. Johnson's largest landscape, a 25-by-38-inch watercolor titled “Winter Silence” and priced at $8,500, shows a partially frozen stream winding its way through a hilly snow scene as the last vestiges of sunlight are reflected off a thawed patch of water. “I wanted to show that frozen quiet that the West can have in the wintertime, with all the snow around,” the artist explained.Read more on NewsOK.com