Raccoon Baby — Giclée on Paper Watercolor is a complex rendering challenge

is a complex rendering challenge

the white collar

and the Sonoran Desert flora are rendered with the same observational precision he brought to his Canadian subjects

year after year

The view from below the surface: a Belted Kingfisher has punched through the water and is diving toward a Rainbow Trout

Raccoon Baby — Giclée on Paper Watercolor is a complex rendering challengeA young raccoon sits at a pond's edge among pickerelweed the juvenile plumage still fluffy, the mask already distinct, the animal regarding the viewer with the alert curiosity of a young mammal encountering something new. A leopard frog sits at the lower right, barely visible but precisely rendered. The pickerelweed behind the kit is botanically exact another wetland species given its due. This painting brings together two classic Ontario pond species