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SELECTIONS OF ART OF ABOUT 25 YEARS FULL TIME

Wildlife Art - Animals in Nature

about 1985
 -  back then, I painted in a looser fashion on large canvases. Later I painted in tighter and detailed realism to suit walls in which the audience is likely to view it at as little as at arm's length.



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  ANIMAL IS PROMINENTLY FEATURED

Since the focus is on the animal, the painting does not have to include as much environment

Red squirrel was a visitor to my property in winter on year


A study of a kingfisher



A visitor to my property from the woods. He came for the clover


An instance in which an animal entered a small landscape painting. Normally wildlife art cannot be small because people want to see detail in the animal



This painting was designed to be an entry in an art competition featuring illustration of a mallard duck


Inspired by the wild cardinal flowers, portrait of a hummingbird



This was my attempt to create a warm positive portrait of wolves with the help of the white coat of arctic wolves. I placed the wolves in springtime tundra



This shows more interation of the animal into an environment, and is less of a portrait.



Loons carry their young on their back until larer. This prevents them being food for larger fish like pike


A portrait of one of the chipmunks that scurry around the forest floor in autumn




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ANIMAL WITHIN A  LANDSCAPE

I allowed the landscape to suggest what animal fits into it and then designed the painting to fit the animal into the design

A bluebird seemed to be the best inhabitant of this country environment




Again, the animal shown was inspired by the ;landscape. In this approach I start with a landscape and then adjust the design to integrate the animal into it, the wngs mirroring the pine branches




This painting was inspired by an early small painting of a sunlit forest floor. I fit the fawm into the scene




I wanted to place the driftwood waters in the bay closeby in a painting, and saw a way of putting a kingfisher at a focal point and integrated into the scene





In this painting I wanted the background trees to form part of the design, and it came to me that a running wolf would make it into a narrative as well as design



An actual scene was arranged in order to accomodate a bobcat lying on a rocke ledge


I saw a design in which a blue jay was contrasted against autumn orange





I was drawn to the detail in the pink rock. and although the seagulls were not there at the time, I added them as their staining of the rocks proved they often stop there




This is mainly a landscape and a gull provided a focal point for the idea and design




"Wild shorre Loons" was a painting inspired by the bay a half km from my studio. It was published as a successful limited edition reproduction



Scene based on actual Native petroglyphs in Ontario, as it was at an earlier time. Today they are in a museum-like building in Petroglyphs Provincial Park The cubs are arranged as if the mother bear is teaching them

Comment: The above is a selection. There are many more wildlife paintings from  the decades of 1980 to the present. Inquire if interested in more

Paintings with Human Presence (not wild nature)  >>>