Thinking Stage and Keeping Busy

I'm getting to a very important part of my Vulture painting and decided I would spend some time thinking about how I was going to proceed with the people inside the bowl. I find one of the best ways to think about my work is to work on something else. 

So meanwhile back at the ranch I was working on some of my photographs and found this shot that I have always loved of a Black Tailed Jackrabbit in a field by my house. I decided he looked like Rabbit in the Winnie the Pooh books so I decided Christopher Robin should be there as well. 

 Christopher Robin with Rabbit

I will get back to painting tomorrow and you can spend some time checking out my work on my website.  :)

Great Bear

Great Bear

 This is a new acrylic painting on canvas that I completed today. It goes along with my Coyote paintings with Native American roots. It is the Great Bear or Nyah-gwaheh, based on the story of how the bear constellation came into being.

 If you look carefully into the skies as the seasons change, you can read that story. The great bear is the square shape some call the bowl of the Big Dipper. The hunters and their small dog (which you can just barely see) are close behind, the dipper's handle. When autumn comes and that constellation turns upside down, the old people say. "Ah, the lazy hunter has killed the bear."  Each autumn the hunters chase the great bear across the skies and kill it. Then, as they cut it up for their meal, the blood falls down from the heavens and colors the leaves of the maple trees scarlet. They cook the bear and the fat dripping from their fires turns the grass white. But as the moons pass and the sky moves once more towards spring, the bear slowly rises back on its feet and the chase begins again.

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Coyote Acrylic Painting Step by Step

I started a new Coyote painting last night. I am painting with 

acrylic paints on watercolor paper for this one. This is on a half sheet of smooth paper 15"x23"

This is my progress so far and the step by step process follows.

Trickster Coyote

I finished a new digital painting today.

Trickster Coyote

 

In Native American stories Coyote is responsible for many things, including the Milky Way and the diversity of mankind, there are more stories about him than stars in the sky. 

I have been wanting to do a series of Coyote paintings for a while now and this is the first one.

I am planning on doing the other work in a similar style. 

I have always enjoyed this style of painting and decided to give it a try.

I have also started an acrylic painting on paper as well. Like most of my work

I am resisting going back and working on this one some more. 

I think I'll just work on the acrylic instead.  :)

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