Hi-Line Living: Dale Shulund: Sketching for a living

It took less than 10 years of persistent drawing for Havre pencil sketch artist Dale Shulund's artwork to find its way in the nation's capital.

Shulund, who said he began seriously drawing and framing his sketches in 2009 after his wife, Marlene, insisted on it, recently caught a big break when Sen. Steve Daines borrowed one of his pieces, "Montana Memories," to hang in his Washington, D.C. office.

The drawing depicts two boys with their backs to the viewer, gazing beyond toward a mountainous landscape, the Bear Paw Mountains, to be exact.

The idea for the drawing was born after Shulund saw a...