Raccoon Baby — Giclée on Paper Watercolor the proportions not yet resolved

the proportions not yet resolved into adult form

The Sulphur's wing venation

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

The red berries in the tree above are just ripe

Raccoon Baby — Giclée on Paper Watercolor the proportions not yet resolvedA 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