Cautious Descent, colored pencil 30 x 13

This leopard climbing down a combretum tree is one of my entries for Western Visions Show and Sale at the National Museum of wildlife art in Jackson, Wyoming in September.  As a child I loved to play with the seed pods of this tree, so it was fun to add them to a drawing.  The rest of the sow can be seen at www.westernvisions.org

Splashes of Gold oil on canvas, 34 x 54

Among the Herd, colored pencil, 12 x 30

These are my first horses in colored pencil...harks back to my childhood, horses were the first animals I drew....

The Young One, colored pencil 29 x 13

This young Texas Longhorn just asked to be captured on paper

Bravado, oil on canvas 60 x 34

Mzee, oil on canvas 40 x 56

Mzee, is Swahili for the wise one......which elephants certainly are..

Silent Descent, oil on canvas 42 x18

Late in the day this lovely female leopard silently slipped out of the tree she had been resting in all day, headed for a night's hunting.  It all happened so quickly and silently it would have been easy to miss.  This piece is my contribution for Trailside Galleries 50th Anniversary, congratulations to them, what a wonderful achievement...