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24" ten 36"

In the past 2 years or then, many of us accept felt this emotion for one reason or another. Some of united states of america have acted out against the feeling of oppression and some have stayed silent, preferring to continue with the oversupply. Nosotros have learned a lot about humans in general. Hopefully nosotros too accept learned a lot about ourselves during this unusual time period.

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LAYING Depression

36"x48" tall

Mount TRAILS SANTA FE GALLERY

This cute female cougar is doing exactly what I seem to be doing now days. Just staying shut to home and cooling it. The stone on this slice was the ultimate challenge and I allowed information technology to design itself and become organic. It is something I have strived for. I accept learned so much from watching other artists. I credit watching Robert Bateman create a piece for this approach to my discipline matter.

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STEPPING OUT SOLD

24"X24"

MOUNTAIN TRAILS SANTA Iron GALLERY

Another from the emerging from the Pandemic series, Homage to all of us who are happy to be able to go out again.

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Enkindling SOLD

18"X24"

MOUNTAIN TRAILS SANTA FE GALLERY

This piece is office of my emerging from the pandemic series. I experience nosotros are all awakening from a very bad dream.

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MAMA Deport SOLD

24 x 36

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Mama bear seems very pacific here, but simply try to harass her baby acquit! I have seen my share of both in the Teton National Park.

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TWILIGHT TIME

24 X 36

MOUNTAIN TRAILS SANTA Fe GALLERY

Sometimes, when we historic period, nosotros just enjoy the company of a loved one by sitting about them, not speaking. Together, at last. Pitt Pens on Claybord.

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WESTSLOPE CUTTHROAT TROUT

18"x36"

ARIZONA SONORA DESERT MUSEUM EXHIBITION

One time over again this is a study in patience using Pitt Pens and dots and lines on White Clayboard to make this cartoon come to life. The photo was provided by the fisherman, Steve Pettit. The river he defenseless this magnificent one in is the same one I fished with him for this guy. Mine were much smaller!

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THE ORACLE

24" alpine x 36" wide

I was actually working on this piece when I did get to a psychic for a reading. I used to visit a very famous one every yr when I lived in the Chicago area. He never quite striking the mark with my predictions. I had washed a phone conversation with this California Gal and she picked up on a lot of things spot on. The chance to see her in person was offered to me and nosotros had such an intense reading that we both were exhausted when it was over. When I told her of the piece I was working on and the championship she told me she HAD been an oracle in Greece in one of her earlier lives. I...

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A SIGN OF THINGS TO Come up

24" x 24"

One more than big cat. this was the outset of my Corona Virus releases. Every bit an introvert, I did non suffer with the "stay at dwelling house" order. It was only another solar day in the studio for me but I did absorb the Tv set news every bit well every bit all of the controversy on the internet. I of my photographer friends captured this Raven (Corvid) and I accept always loved information technology. Thank you Judy Johnson for the reference. I normally practice all of my ain photography but this one was needed to say what I was feeling during the onset of the pandemic. None of united states saw this coming. Information technology only appeared like a blackness...

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FADING - WILD CLEARWATER STEELHEAD Ultra Express Edition bachelor

24 X 36

The first in a new series I am compiling featuring fiddling known species from right here in the USA that are Threatened or on the brink of existence declared Endangered. Man caused mortality is the primary cause for this fish to be on the Threatened list in the Snake River Basin, one of the most important areas for its population. It is partially due to climatic change and warmer waters simply mostly to mismanagement past humans, due to the construction of four Federal Dams on the Lower Serpent River that destroyed the migration corridor for Snake R Bowl salmon and...

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OUT OF THE BLUE

36" x 36"

Arboretums are my friend. Such marvelous and well kept flowers always grow. The photo for this piece was taken while with a group of artists who worked in every other medium than my ain and loved sketching and plein aire working. Nosotros were at our annual exhibition in Steamboat Springs, Co during the early on summer and visited their gardens. I am certain many more than pieces volition come from the trip alone. I chose this as the commencement considering I have attempted them on the black surface as a scratchboard and wanted to examination myself. I put the blue behind just a portion of information technology to "POP" it...

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Style TOO LONG HORN #ii

36 10 36

Number 2 in my newest serial featuring some of the prettiest longhorns in Texas. This ane is on the white claybord with Pitt Pens drawn on then scratched. the black area prove are where the wall would be!

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NIGHT

12 X 36

MARCUS ASHLEY GALLERY

California gull in flying. I shot the reference photo from a cliff in Northern California and wondered how I could piece of work information technology in to a slice. I also had a great shot of another from the same day then I felt a diptych of opposites would be interesting on the two types of scratchboard available now. I guess you could say this was part of my Yin/Yang stage.

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DAY

12 X 36

MARCUS ASHLEY GALLERY

California gull in flight. I shot the reference photo from a cliff in Northern California and wondered how I could work it in to a slice. I also had a great shot of another from the same day so I felt a diptych of opposites would be interesting on the two types of scratchboard available now. I guess you could say this was office of my Yin/Yang phase.

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SHOO-FLY

36 X 36

MARCUS ASHLEY

This is another of my symbolic serial. The ravens tin be whatever annoyance that you choose to try to get rid of. In existent life, Grizzlies will often look for ravens equally a sign of a carcass that they can feast on. For me they stood for small-scale bouts with depression that I was able to shoo abroad.

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WALKING IN HIS OWN SHADOW SOLD

36" x 24"tall

When I saw this one of my photos I was attracted to it for some reason. The shadow over his shoulder from his hump was so dramatic. Searching for a championship I came across a quote from the former President of Bharat, "Bharat needs to acquire to walk in her ain shadow" . I think that is a good way of explaining my philosophy of life. I prefer to be thought of as an original.

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I DIDN'T Exercise It

12' tall 10 24" wide

Wiley Coyote, blaming things on the roadrunner again. expect until I get my roadrunner piece washed!

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WHAT'South IN THE BOX? SOLD

12 X 24

On a trip to photograph bears, hopefully, I came across these two with a Cracker Jack Box.....didn't y'all always want to know what the treat was inside?

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DRINKING BEHIND MY BACK

12 X 24

MARCUS ASHLEY

On nevertheless some other trip to Yellowstone looking for bears these 2 showed up later a pelting. Magpies are hard enough to take hold of a good glimpse of, permit alone a photo so I was happy one was thirsty!

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TERRITORIAL RITES #ii

16 10 xx

MOUNTAIN TRAILS SANTA Atomic number 26 GALLERY

Ravens tend to get "fluffed" if their territory is threatened by others. Hither are two such guys,

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TERRITORIAL RITES #i

16 10 twenty

Mount TRAILS SANTA FE GALLERY

Here are the other 2 Ravens defending their territory.

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In that location'S MORE TO Come

xx" wide past xvi"alpine

MARCUS ASHLEY

Yellowstone has offered me multiple changes for some great reference shots of Bison. This is one of the first ones I have attempted to do and am having fun figuring out how to practice the unlike types of fur. I cannot wait to become to my wintertime ones. Keep Watching.

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BROKEN Circumvolve

12" wide 10 24" tall

MAXWELL'S Fine art GALLERY

This is a very special slice of work for me. It signifies the loss of a child and the effects that it has on the mother. No one will always be able to empathise that particular loss unless they have personally experienced it. Information technology was an consignment for the Haggin Museum Show with American Women Artists. Nosotros were asked to reinterpret some existing art in their drove. It won the "Nature Interpretation Award"!

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GRUMPY

18" wide 10 24" alpine

MARCUS ASHLEY GALLERY

It seems to me that well-nigh males of most species get grumpier and grumpier equally they historic period.

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MYSTERY MOOSE

18"wide past 18" tall

While chasing down a Moose in the campgrounds outside of Jackson Hole, WY, we happened to spot 1 far off along the river. So did many others with cameras so it became a traffic jam. We pulled over on the reverse side of the action and got our gear ready. When nosotros looked back out we could not see him anywhere. Just as I said, "where is that darn Moose now?", he appeared just exterior my driver's side window.

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BI-POLAR

24' tall by 60" wide cradled

This piece serves multiple purposes. I always like to prove the difference between a discipline on a black background versus one on white and then others tin can grasp the intensity of colour that happens when it is surrounded past blackness. This piece is also a bridge between a new medium that I am looking in to using more often, Markers with India Ink in them that can be used on the white clay base for scratchboard and then cutting dorsum and redrawn like the black surface. I am loving information technology! It is totally cartoon, no painted washes of color involved at all. My inner Van Gogh is...

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JACK

eighteen" broad x 24" tall

This sometime homo was spotted in the plaza of the Pink Church building in San Miguel Mexico, leading a younger Donkey backside him. I finally figured it out that he was training her to carry a pack and the farmer was introducing her to the noise in the plaza.

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JENNY

eighteen" broad x 24" tall

This is Jenny, the younger woman I mentioned in the story of Jack. They are a pair and really should not exist separated.

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THINGS ARE LOOKING UP

xx" wide by xvi" tall

MARCUS ASHLEY

The Grizzly Encounter is a neat place to get skillful photos of our awesome friends. I accept not been blessed past the existent experience in the outdoors, but I really prefer this way. I also love the backlighting on this handsome guy.

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THE Center HAS Information technology Ultra Limited Edition bachelor

60"x18"

I am a lover of beingness ones own boss. I also say the all-time committee is a committee of ONE, therefor the title of this piece, a play on words of form. The eye itself is the only part of the slice that seems centered and not full of anxiety and confusion, kind of like the Hurricane we went through as I was working on this piece!

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SAD Center SOLD

24" wide by 36" tall

I know it's been done before simply it is truly a challenge to do it in scratchboard. Keeping the crack lines on the hide blackness while removing the lighter areas is harder than anything one does in the medium. Fur and feathers are very easy, and so I am working toward my ultimate challenge of a full sized Elephant.

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CHARDONNAY MONKEY

24" tall x 18" wide

MARCUS ASHLEY GALLERY

This young Vervet looks non to be old plenty to drink, just all ages are known to steal your drinks while you are not watching them and on Safari. The wine is well paired with my favorite water crackers and Aged Parmesan, Smoked Gouda and Brie (Triple creame, of course). Yum

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PINA COLADA MONKEY

24" tall 10 18" wide

MARCUS ASHLEY GALLERY

Number seven in my Monkey business organization is a fun Lemur, basking in the tropical sunshine with his very 'beachy" drink, umbrellas and all.

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MOJITO MONKEY SOLD

24' tall 10 18" wide

This very Modern Colobus Monkey is number 9 in my series and looks the 'Metro' part. It is only plumbing fixtures that he sports a chichi modern potable, especially because he is a leaf eater!

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MY WHAT A LOVELY PAIR OF BONGOS

36" broad by 36" tall

Mathew McConnahey where are you. This piece was done to commemorate his nude bongo playing in Due south Austin. Not really but I did put in a very tribal pattern that looks as if it would be found on a drum. These Bongos were from the Sanctuary at Fossil Rim exterior of Dallas. They really are a handsome pair.

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SOME DAYS A COUPLE OF KIDS REALLY Go YOUR Caprine animal

24"wide by eighteen" tall

When my commencement ii grandkids were young, I took them to an apple orchard to pick apples with out their parents for the first time. We rode the hay carriage, picked apples, and so went to a petting zoo on the farm. I certainly tin can chronicle to the whole scene later that day. I was pooped and they were also.

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PAPA BEAR SOLD

36x36

Is he gentle or not? If I was Goldilocks I would non stick around to find out. Stop in at the gallery in Santa Fe to come across if she is there along with the rest of the bears!

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BABY BEAR SOLD

eighteen ten 24

MANITOU GALLERY SOLD

This sweet babe looks as if someone stole his porridge or slept in his bed, doesn't he? This was created as part of the Tales of Enchantment show in Santa Fe, NM He did not last long!

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WILD HORSES SOLD

24" X36"

Pitt Pen cartoon on Clayboard from a photograph that I took when I visited the Pino Nut Herd of Carson Valley Nevada. At that place will be more like this. It was a stunning adventure!

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BECOME THE Carry SOLD Ultra Limited Edition Impress available

36" wide by 60" tall

MARCUS ASHLEY GALLERY

Hurricane Harvey hit usa hard. My former studio and George'due south Used Auto Dealership was totally submerged underwater from the Colorado River in Texas. The storm saturday but to the Due north of information technology and emptied rain for 3 days. When we knew that the "cone of opportunity" showed information technology'southward path to be straight at out boondocks, nosotros were a thousand miles away. All we could practice was sit down and watch it move closer and direct actions from afar. Nosotros managed to minimize the effects and compensate much quicker than nigh. I wanted to capture the feeling of being doomed, just...

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PRECARIOUS POSITION SOLD

24" wide by 72" tall

This piece arose from the decisions that needed to exist fabricated during the Corona Virus in 2020. I can only imagine how the Judges, Mayors and Governors must experience every time they need to decide what to do and what restrictions to impose on their constituents. Let alone what parents feel about schooling their children and what is best for them. As you will annotation, This female Cougar is balanced on several branches but has weight on the min trunk besides. she has a goal spotted simply in order to accept the jump she must carefully redistribute her weight or the branches volition...

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Twenty-four hour period DREAMER SOLD

12" tall 10 24" broad

I guess I am on a big true cat fixation, specifically Mountain Lions. this cute one was not to be resisted. I used it at my new gallery to prove the folks exactly how you practise a scratchboard slice. It did not get done for a long fourth dimension because I e'er had to cease and explain things. Once I took it back to the studio, I made a swell deal more headway on it. Information technology turned out to exist looking more dreamy eyed that focused or fixated. I may revisit information technology at some other time and cropping and put a flake of intensity in those eyes, only for now at that place is nothing wrong with dreaming!

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Spotter THE Birdie SOLD

eighteen" wide past 24" tall

MANITOU GALLERIES SOLD

We outset visited Santa Atomic number 26 to bring artwork and meet the personnel of Manitou Galleries. It was springtime and all of the trees were in total bloom. I made sure I had brought my camera and took many photos of the blossoms as well as the many birds. The elevation half of this piece was from a photo taken right i the courtyard of the Coulee Route gallery. I knew I just had to apply this scene somehow, and the challenge to have ii animals was plenty to make me figure out haw to exercise information technology. The young cougar photo was 1 I thought I would never utilize. It...

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LEAN IN SOLD Ultra Express Edition available

24" wide by 60" tall

AWA AWARD WINNER AT STEAMBOAT SPRINGS MUSEUM

Cats are my love, as are powerful messages. This female cougar is poised to jump and has her eye on the prize. I echoed the message of Sheryl Sanders volume by titling it "Lean In". There is no turning dorsum at present only getting to that point of courage has taken women a long time. We are however reinforcing each other as is seen by the new Advertisement for Bumble, a dating app, which says "Make the offset move". That applies to life not just relationships. Many opportunities are lost by women considering we hesitate. Believe!...

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FOCUS SOLD

24" tall x 24"wide

MARCUS ASHLEY ART GALLERY

I chose this slice equally the kickoff to work on after a long fourth dimension off. I needed to go back in the groove and get productive but had lost my ain Focus, then I chose this guy. Sometimes your mood inspires the art you choose and sometimes the fine art serves to change your mood, much like music.

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Risk See SOLD

18" tall x 24" wide

Dec finds the rut in total force in the Northern section of the Bitterroot-Selway Wilderness. A friend of mine surprised these two while he was fishing a secluded stream. They watched him with as much wonder as he watched them. They stayed around long enough for him to snap a bang-up photo capture off. I have tried my best to replicate it using Bharat Ink Markers and scratchboard techniques. This is a brand new medium which I LOVE!

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BIG Dog-CHIHUAHUA

triptych 56" wide by 24" tall

This is just the beginning of my "Big Dog" series of larger than life portraits of canis familiaris faces. The ears are detachable and each of the parts are actually boxes with scratchboard on the one surface. Very unusual. It made it into the Society of Beast Artists' Annual Bear witness and is currently touring the nation going from i museum to another. Ever thinking on the box, not outside of it!

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AFRICAN Rhinoceros

thirteen" x 13"

Handsome every bit he is, most would non call up of him equally pretty nevertheless the designs from 1997 sure make him. I enjoyed taking primative symbols from tribal designs and making them into the corner inserts.

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AFRICAN LION

13" x 13"

Handsome as he is, most would not recollect of him equally pretty yet the designs from 1997 sure brand him. I enjoyed taking primitive symbols from tribal designs and making them into the corner inserts.

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AFRICAN GORILLA

13"broad by xiii"alpine

Handsome every bit he is, virtually would non think of him as pretty yet the designs from 1997 certain make him. I enjoyed taking primative symbols from tribal designs and making them into the corner inserts.

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AFRICAN HIPPO

13" broad past 13" tall

One of my designs from 1997 which I completed in 2014. I sure enjoyed doing these then too as at present.

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AFRICAN LEOPARD

13" broad by 13" tall

I designed the border for this in 1997 only was able to put one of my own panthera leo photos in information technology instead of the one I had designed in 2014.

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AFRICAN CAPE BUFFALO

13" wide by 13" tall

All of these pieces are as well available equally silk scarves. I am and then happy I constitute my quondam designs and added new animal images to them. The tribal patterns on each reverberate the feeling of each individual beast.

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YIN YANG SOLD

36" wide by 24" alpine

Nosotros wanted to endeavor Koi in our small waterlily pond, but went with the less expensive and more adaptable Goldfish starting time to try it out. Skilful thing we did considering the Raccoons ate them and the swimming got green quickly and then nosotros converted information technology to a fountain/reflecting pond that we can add chlorine to and keep clean.

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PORT O'CONNER REFLECTION

24" wide by 18" tall

I don't know whatsoever time of day and any other identify that is more peaceful and cute but dawn on the ocean. We fish out of Port O'Conner and allurement up in the canal. The light was just communicable the water when I snapped a photo that I interpreted for this piece. I can almost scent the salt air when I wait at it.

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COTTONWOOD REFLECTION

24" broad by xviii" alpine

During my "Reflections" menstruum, I photographed many bodies of water. This was the entry bridge to Cottonwood Park in Richardson, TX, that led into the semi-annual art show at that place. Information technology was one of my favorite shows and settings. Ducks usually swam forth with geese on this swimming creating wonderful images.

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SHARK TANK REFLECTION

24" broad by 18" alpine

Chicago's Shed Aquarium yielded this unusual reflection. Information technology is actually looking upwards at the surface of the water with the lights reflecting on it. If yous look carefully you lot tin can brand out i of the sharks!

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PAST PRIME? SOLD Ultra Limited Edition impress available

I took this photo while on an creature photo trip, on the final day. The lighting was perfect and I kept is aside for about 12 years because the flower was wilting. Now that I am using the Pitt Pen Markers with intense color, I revisited this subject. It turned out so beautifully that I had to give information technology this name to brand all of us cease and call up about the aging process and exactly when IS "prime". This bloom has notwithstanding to fully develop and put forth it'due south seeds after is has been pollinated. Then even if information technology'south glow is fading, it will enrich us even more than by going to seed and bringing another...

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COMPASSION SOLD

24"x24"

I seem to always gravitate toward my own photographs that show some type of emotion. This surely does, with the wolves exhibiting mutual canine behavior. It brought me dorsum to the twenty-four hours when my spouse and I realized all nosotros had worked for at his business was going under water in a overflowing. We could do nothing near it merely hold each other and cry.

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SOUL SEARCHER SOLD

24 wide X 24 tall

Is he searching for yours, or are you searching his? Heart contact says it all

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FORBIDDEN FRUIT SOLD Ultra Limited Edition impress avalable

36" x36"

This was some other of my experimental pieces, half done with India Ink Marking on Claybord and the bottom done MY traditional method of cutting the black Scratchbord and and then painting in washes of colored Republic of india Ink. I was trying for depth and certainly got it here. "Striking" is a term I often hear applied to this piece. Photo credit for snake: Steve Pettit. (I would never be that close to one!)

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CHAMBERED NAUTILUS SOLD

36" wide by 30" tall

I accept the actual shell that posed for this slice, but I dropped it and information technology shattered. I have glued it back together, but information technology will never be the same. I love the blueprint that nature makes.

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Adoration SOLD

24" wide X 22" tall

MANITOU GALLERY SOLD

One more man emotion that can be visualized in animals is that of adoration. These guys are going through their greeting ritual and pure love is shown right here, right now. I just thouroughly bask watching animals do this. Wolves are not the only ones as our own domestic firm cats exercise it when they take been separated for a while.

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MOUNT RAMSMORE SOLD Ultra Limited Edition print bachelor

24' by 48" broad

You may retrieve the "sketch that I did last twelvemonth of this Monumental slice. It was done using colored India Ink markers and turned out spectacular. I debated using Silverish Leafing for the sky in the original considering I loved the contrast of the bright sky to the dark rugged mount the existent monument was carver out of. When I put it out to the general public, they liked the black background best. SOOOOO I decided to proceed my options open and will offering the prints with either Golden/Copper/Silver foil skies or apparently blackness. You volition see that I DID employ gloss varnish on the...

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Be Bear AWARE SOLD Ultra Express Edition print bachelor

36" tall past 48" wide

Aye, he is HUGE. And he is gentle nevertheless strong, a very powerful piece. I named him this considering information technology seems that signs are everywhere once yous get to the Rocky Mountains to carry Acquit Spray and Be Bear Aware. With one this size, that is guaranteed.

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FULL MOON SOLD Ultra Limited Edition available

24"TALL X 36" WIDE

This is my outset true Nocturnal piece. I drew one view of this Longhorn as a daylight piece and so flipped the photo over to do this one. I chose to view the night sky at exactly the fourth dimension ( two chances, actually) that the moon shadow would exist cast in the same management equally the sun shadow did. I took a screenshot using my iPad and an App to secure where the constellations and Milky Fashion would exist at that time. The real trick was to determine how white the whites would exist under a full moon. I revisited that just befoe painting this and planted it in my retentiveness as NO...

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Casual OBSERVER SOLD

24" TALL X 36" WIDE

I enjoy the subtleness of this huge cat, just draped over some tree limbs. Many times this is my ain choice rather than jumping into the fray. No comment, simply sit back and see what the others take to say or what they are doing. Just live my own life!

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WHAT AN ASS SOLD

eighteen' tall x 24"broad

Hmmm, in the current environment politically speaking, this could utilise to a LOT of people out there?

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MUSTANG Sally SOLD

24" tall x 36" broad

Another of my "Magic Marker" drawings using the Pitt Pens on Claybord white. This is a reinterpretation of my original "Wild Matter " done in colored scratchboard. Since I have just completed my second bronze featuring this horse, I felt it needed a companion piece.

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