One Of My Favorites

This is the larger version of one I painted a couple years ago when I was still living in Boise. The funny thing about this painting is that I remember I wasn't really in the mood to start one but thought I'd give it a try. Sometimes a painting just seems to paint itself and this was one of those times. When I finished I thought it was good enough to enter in Art For The Parks, a national artist competition, but then discovered the 16x20 format was too big for the minis and too small for the regular competition. So I actually repainted it in 18x24 which you see here but it was not accepted. Oh well. Anyway, it's the first time I discovered that a yellow ochre glaze can work wonders on the right animal.