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| "Hunter's Moon" Barn Owl 18"x 14" acrylic on board This painting was inspired by being buzzed by a Barn Owl that was chasing bugs around a street lamp in Beaumont, California. The setting, however, is a more familiar rural one for me since I had to paint the background and lighting out of my head. The owl was being flown by a falconer and I photographed it in full daylight. We get Barn Owls in Vermont, but they aren't common and restricted mostly to the Champlain Valley. |
| "Nunavik Gold" Golden Eagle above La Colline Misurtuq and the George River I had the idea for this painting on our Recon expedition on the George River in September 2005 but we didn't have time to run to the top of the hill (1,300 ft vertical). On the 2006 Main Expedition we camped here and I got the scene in the late light as I wanted, however, despite seeing several Golden Eagles, I couldn't get any usable shots of one. Three months later and 3,000 miles away, while paddling the Rio Grande through the famed "Lower Canyons" below Big Bend National Park in Texas, I was investigated by this magnificent Golden who came in low and circled. "Nunavik" is the Arctic region of Quebec above 55 degrees North Latitude. |
| "Beachcomber" Marbled Godwit 9"x 12" acrylic on board (Private collection) This was one of a flock of Godwits that were on the beach in Oceanside, CA at dawn. |
| "Top of the Tundra" George River Caribou Bull 12"x 24" acrylic on canvas $2,600.00 |
| "Caribou Moon"(IP) Kamestastin Labrador 16"x 6.5" acrylic study Photographing this herd passing under the rising moon was a wonder. It was a bit of a frustration not being able to fit them into the frame as they moved into the sunlight. Fortunately painters aren't totally hamstrung by precise reality. About 150 caribou passed over this ridge in about a half an hour in two large groups. This piece will be in "Masterworks in Miniature" at Gallery One in Ohio, February 2009 |
| Caribou Bull pencil study from Kamestastin, Labrador 5"x 7" $250.00 |
| "Down to the River" detail, pencil study (painting starting soon), Kamestastin, Labrador about 6"x 8" $280.00 |
