by Kate | Oct 3, 2023
inspiration: I wondered if I could find a photo that showed animals helping each other. Googling took me to this YouTube video, which included this powerful scene WHICH I SUSPECT IS NOT REAL. Thinking about it, I realized I wanted to paint a more believable scene....
by Kate | Aug 28, 2023
Inspiration: I entered “animals” and “reinvention” into a Google search and came up with the “romantic notion” of re-wilding. I am, at heart, a romantic, so I love this improbable idea! I went from there to the American Prairie Foundation. One of its core animals is...
by Kate | Jul 27, 2023
Inspiration I googled “animals that work together” and surfed the results, which included this article that lauds beavers for their job shadowing habits (which surely involve the beaver equivalent of asking for help), their planning, creativity, and innovation. After...
by Kate | Jun 25, 2023
inspiration I googled “strong endangered animals,” surfed the results and decided to paint a bison. Before Europeans came to America, it’s estimated there were 300-600 million bison. The US government encouraged Buffalo slaughter, thinking (correctly) it would...
by Kate | May 23, 2023
inspiration: Thinking about weakness, I got the image of the delicacy and innocence of a deer. Googling, I discovered that there is an endangered deer, the Key deer. It lives in Florida. They are a subspecies of the white-tailed deer, but are smaller, only 24 to 32...
