Singing Wolf

Preliminary idea sketch for a painting of a wolf. I photographed the wolves at Zoo Montana while they were howling and the aspen forest while hiking in the Beartooth mountains. Wolves howl to find their pack mates, as well as keep wolves not in their pack at bay. I suspect these wolves were howling to warn a few local dogs of their presence...not that they could do anything behind a chainlink fence, but instinct knows no bounds.

Dancing Stars

Finally! My Dancing Stars painting completed. While I painted the majority of it using watercolor, I embellished it with color pencils and acrylic paint to give it more texture and form. Dancing Stars is part of an intertidal series of paintings I'm creating, inspired by my annual visits to the Oregon coast. I'm putting the series on hold for a bit to move on to warm, fuzzy, drier creatures that have eyeballs!