Elk and Moose

The top painting is titled "Bugle Boy" and is oil on canvas - 16 x 20 in size. It was completed in 2012 and depicts fall rutting season in the Rocky Mountains. Late fall is rutting time for the bulls that fight for supremacy of the herd. Antlers remain in velvet for spring and part of summer. By fall the velvet has been stripped off by rubbing against trees. This painting depicts the newly fallen snows on the higher peak in the background and the changing of the quaking aspen from green to lime and yellow, and the meadow grass is brassy.

The bottom painting is titled "Bull Moose at Pelican Creek" and is oil on canvas - 16 x 20 in size. It was painted in June-July 2014 and depicts moose feeding at Pelican Creek in Yellowstone National Park. Pelican Valley stretches several miles from the shore of Yellowstone Lake northeast into the Mirror Plateau and against the Absaroka Mountains along eastern border of the Park. It is a good habitat for moose as well as elk and buffalo and predators. Moose eat the succulent plants that grow at the bottom and along the edges of the waterways. I've tried to capture the openness of the valley with the lower foothills of the Mirror Plateau and higher Absaroka Mountains in the far background.