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Greeting the day
Searching for something to paint today, I came upon a book of J. M. W. Turner paintings. I used one of his studies for the composition for this painting, but turned it into my own. This painting depicts the reverence and awe of nature that I find so important in a good friend of mine.…
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The Sentry – Mustangs running free
While wild mustangs or feral horses are considered pests by many, and by others, nothing more than weeds; their argument being that when Columbus arrived on our shores, there were no horses. Archaeological records show there were plenty of horses here, they were probably just hunted to extinction by hungry humans. I, for one welcome…
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Not coyotes, these are wolves
Another rare grey wolf was shot by a hunter. He thought it was a coyote, and shot before he noticed she had a radio collar (Link to article). Wolves are so very important for our ecosystem, and for that matter, so are coyotes. Bounties on predators might have been important during the days of Little…
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Christmas Commission
One of the most challenging commissions I can get is of a person who can’t pose for me because they are deceased. This particular subject was of a teenaged girl, a tricky combination of a little girl and a young woman, so I found it particularly hard to actually see how old she was in…
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The Rare Andean Cat
High up in the arid hills of the Andes live a very small population of wild cats. They are considered the small cat analog to the snow leopard, and belong to one of the rarest and least known of all the cat species. They are endangered, due to over-hunting and habitat encroachment. There exists a…