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| "Backlit Big Horn in the Shadow of Haystack Butte" |
23" H x 20" W Colored Pencil and Water Soluble Wax Pastel on mylar, mounted on archival mat board.
"Backlit Big Horn" has been juried into several different juried exhibitions, including the 2008 Emerald Spring Exhibition, Emerald Art Center, Springfield, OR; the 23rd Annual Conservatory Art Classic at the Bosque Conservatory, Clifton, TX; and more recently it has been selected as one of the Paint the Parks100 for 2009. This piece has also been published in Anne Kullberg's book COLORED PENCIL SECRETS FOR SUCCESS, as the frontispiece for her chapter on animals.
This piece was completed in August 2007 based on photography from my 2006 trip to Glacier National Park. This guy allowed me to photograph him from a close range. Frankly, he did not seem terribly interested in what I was doing at all. We found this group of Big Horns late in the afternoon just below Haystack Butte on the High Line trail. The sun seemed to be almost horizontal to us, and I love the way it backlit this "gentleman"