Evening Antelope

A rare painting from a photo I took myself (yes, someday I will purchase a grown up camera with a good zoom). This young antelope had just ducked under the fence, as antelope do, on my father's alfalfa farm in central Nevada last summer. There were no antelope out there when I was a child, they were reintroduced long after I had grown up, and now there is a very healthy and populous population :) This painting is a 6x6 soft pastel and is framed in a gorgeous plein air style frame from Randy Higbee Gallery (kingofframe.com). The glass is Conservation Clear, and all acid free materials were used in framing.






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Satisfaction

This was inspired by a recent ride into the high country in an area the elk really like. It brought to mind memories of a camping trip up there where we observed several large bull elk napping on a ridge where they could keep an eye on things. Through binoculars we could see they all had huge racks, and were at the end of the growth cycle. In a few weeks they would shed their velvet and not be buddies anymore. While perusing the website PaintMyPhoto I found a photo of an elk that embodied the memories I had. I call it "Satisfaction" because he looks very pleased with himself. This is a 6x6 soft pastel on Pastelmat, and is framed in a Randy Higbee Gallery frame (love these frames!) using acid free materials.

Billy

Billy the Billy goat right? Actually he is Billy the Kid, as in kid goat :) Young goats are called kids, like how young sheep are called lambs. This was painted from a crop I took of a photo provided Leah Gretton on the website PaintMyPhoto, and is a 6x6 in soft pastels on Pastelmat. Framed in a Randy Higbee Gallery frame using acid free materials, with Conservation Clear glass.

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