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BLUE WOLF
24X24
SOLD
This is one of my favorite photos that I have taken of this wolf. You will find him as a larger one as smaller as tall and thin and short and squat. He is too handsome to limit. This one is done using markers on the white Claybord then cutting it off. I LOVE WORKING on this medium!!
moreCOMING OUT
12 X 16
MOUNTAIN TRAILS SANTA FE GALLERY
I love to add contrast and did so in this piece. he was advancing toward me from the shadows, coming out. I chose not to show what he was "coming out" from. Imagination can work.
moreTREE HUGGER
12X24
MOUNTAIN TRAILS SANTA FE GALLERY
I honestly was one while I was working on this piece. I am building a new studio and two different sub contractors cut down or cut off major branches of my trees without my permission. Needless to say, they suffered a huge tongue lashing. Some people place no value in other living things and other peoples property.
moreBILL'S IN A BAD MOOD BBAF CODY WY
24X36
With my experiences with Bison, if they are in the road, they own the road and you are not allowed to pass. This one was particularly grumpy. He was named because he is traveling to the Buffalo Bill Fine Art show in Cody, WY this fall too be auctioned off with benefits going to the museum there.
moreTHE GATHERING
24x 48
This piece was done over a period of 3 years, and was inspired by our family hosting our cousins from all across the USA . We laughed and hugged and experienced new things as well as catching up with each others lives. I did not feel inspired to work on it during Covid for some reason but once the restrictions were lifted, I bounced back!
moreBLUES SINGER SOLD
24x36
moreBACK OFF
24" x 36"
In the past two years or so, many of us have felt this emotion for one reason or another. Some of us have acted out against the feeling of oppression and some have stayed silent, preferring to go along with the crowd. We have learned a lot about humans in general. Hopefully we also have learned a lot about ourselves during this unusual time period.
moreLAYING LOW
36"x48" tall
MOUNTAIN TRAILS SANTA FE GALLERY
This beautiful female cougar is doing exactly what I seem to be doing now days. Just staying close to home and cooling it. The stone on this piece was the ultimate challenge and I allowed it to design itself and become organic. It is something I have strived for. I have learned so much from watching other artists. I credit watching Robert Bateman create a piece for this approach to my subject matter.
moreSTEPPING OUT SOLD
24"X24"
MOUNTAIN TRAILS SANTA FE GALLERY
Another from the emerging from the Pandemic series, Homage to all of us who are happy to be able to go out again.
moreAWAKENING SOLD
18"X24"
MOUNTAIN TRAILS SANTA FE GALLERY
This piece is part of my emerging from the pandemic series. I feel we are all awakening from a very bad dream.
moreMAMA BEAR SOLD
24 x 36
SOLD
Mama bear seems very pacific here, but just try to harass her baby bear! I have seen my share of both in the Teton National Park.
moreTWILIGHT TIME
24 X 36
MOUNTAIN TRAILS SANTA FE GALLERY
Sometimes, when we age, we just enjoy the company of a loved one by sitting near them, not speaking. Together, at last. Pitt Pens on Claybord.
moreWESTSLOPE CUTTHROAT TROUT
18"x36"
ARIZONA SONORA DESERT MUSEUM EXHIBITION
Once again this is a study in patience using Pitt Pens and dots and lines on White Clayboard to make this drawing come to life. The photo was provided by the fisherman, Steve Pettit. The river he caught this magnificent one in is the same one I fished with him for this guy. Mine were much smaller!
moreTHE ORACLE
24" tall x 36" wide
I was actually working on this piece when I did go to a psychic for a reading. I used to visit a very famous one every year when I lived in the Chicago area. He never quite hit the mark with my predictions. I had done a phone chat with this California Gal and she picked up on a lot of things spot on. The chance to meet her in person was offered to me and we had such an intense reading that we both were exhausted when it was over. When I told her of the piece I was working on and the title she told me she HAD been an oracle in Greece in one of her earlier lives. I...
moreA SIGN OF THINGS TO COME
24" x 24"
One more big cat. this was the first of my Corona Virus releases. As an introvert, I did not suffer with the "stay at home" order. It was just another day in the studio for me but I did absorb the Television news as well as all of the controversy on the internet. One of my photographer friends captured this Raven (Corvid) and I have always loved it. Thank you Judy Johnson for the reference. I normally do all of my own photography but this one was needed to say what I was feeling during the onset of the pandemic. None of us saw this coming. It just appeared like a black...
moreFADING - WILD CLEARWATER STEELHEAD Ultra Limited Edition available
24 X 36
The first in a new series I am compiling featuring little known species from right here in the USA that are Threatened or on the brink of being declared Endangered. Man caused mortality is the primary cause for this fish to be on the Threatened list in the Snake River Basin, one of the most important areas for its population. It is partially due to climate change and warmer waters but mostly to mismanagement by humans, due to the construction of four Federal Dams on the Lower Snake River that destroyed the migration corridor for Snake R Basin salmon and...
moreOUT OF THE BLUE
36" x 36"
Arboretums are my friend. Such marvelous and well kept flowers always abound. The photo for this piece was taken while with a group of artists who worked in every other medium than my own and loved sketching and plein aire working. We were at our annual exhibition in Steamboat Springs, Co during the early summer and visited their gardens. I am sure many more pieces will come from the trip alone. I chose this as the first because I have attempted them on the black surface as a scratchboard and wanted to test myself. I put the blue behind just a portion of it to "POP" it...
moreWAY TOO LONG HORN #2
36 X 36
Number 2 in my newest series featuring some of the prettiest longhorns in Texas. This one is on the white claybord with Pitt Pens drawn on then scratched. the black area show are where the wall would be!
moreNIGHT
12 X 36
MARCUS ASHLEY GALLERY
California gull in flight. I shot the reference photo from a cliff in Northern California and wondered how I could work it in to a piece. I also had a great shot of another from the same day so I felt a diptych of opposites would be interesting on the two types of scratchboard available now. I guess you could say this was part of my Yin/Yang stage.
moreDAY
12 X 36
MARCUS ASHLEY GALLERY
California gull in flight. I shot the reference photo from a cliff in Northern California and wondered how I could work it in to a piece. I also had a great shot of another from the same day so I felt a diptych of opposites would be interesting on the two types of scratchboard available now. I guess you could say this was part of my Yin/Yang stage.
moreSHOO-FLY
36 X 36
MARCUS ASHLEY
This is another of my symbolic series. The ravens can be any annoyance that you choose to try to get rid of. In real life, Grizzlies will often look for ravens as a sign of a carcass that they can feast on. For me they stood for small bouts with depression that I was able to shoo away.
moreWALKING IN HIS OWN SHADOW SOLD
36" x 24"tall
When I saw this one of my photos I was attracted to it for some reason. The shadow over his shoulder from his hump was so dramatic. Searching for a title I came across a quote from the former President of India, "India needs to learn to walk in her own shadow" . I think that is a good way of explaining my philosophy of life. I prefer to be thought of as an original.
moreI DIDN'T DO IT
12' tall x 24" wide
Wiley Coyote, blaming things on the roadrunner again. wait until I get my roadrunner piece done!
moreWHAT'S IN THE BOX? SOLD
12 X 24
On a trip to photograph bears, hopefully, I came across these two with a Cracker Jack Box.....didn't you always want to know what the treat was inside?
moreDRINKING BEHIND MY BACK
12 X 24
MARCUS ASHLEY
On yet another trip to Yellowstone looking for bears these two showed up after a rain. Magpies are hard enough to catch a good glimpse of, let alone a photo so I was happy one was thirsty!
moreTERRITORIAL RITES #2
16 X 20
MOUNTAIN TRAILS SANTA FE GALLERY
Ravens tend to get "fluffed" if their territory is threatened by others. Here are two such guys,
moreTHERE'S MORE TO COME
20" wide by 16"tall
MARCUS ASHLEY
Yellowstone has offered me multiple changes for some great reference shots of Bison. This is one of the first ones I have attempted to do and am having fun figuring out how to do the different types of fur. I cannot wait to get to my winter ones. Keep Watching.
moreBROKEN CIRCLE
12" wide x 24" tall
MAXWELL'S ART GALLERY
This is a very special piece of work for me. It signifies the loss of a child and the effects that it has on the mother. No one will ever be able to understand that particular loss unless they have personally experienced it. It was an assignment for the Haggin Museum Show with American Women Artists. We were asked to reinterpret some existing art in their collection. It won the "Nature Interpretation Award"!
moreMYSTERY MOOSE
18"wide by 18" tall
While chasing down a Moose in the campgrounds outside of Jackson Hole, WY, we happened to spot one far off along the river. So did many others with cameras so it became a traffic jam. We pulled over on the opposite side of the action and got our gear ready. When we looked back out we could not see him anywhere. Just as I said, "where is that darn Moose now?", he appeared just outside my driver's side window.
moreBI-POLAR
24' tall by 60" wide cradled
This piece serves multiple purposes. I always like to show the difference between a subject on a black background versus one on white so others can grasp the intensity of color that happens when it is surrounded by black. This piece is also a bridge between a new medium that I am looking in to using more often, Markers with India Ink in them that can be used on the white clay base for scratchboard and then cut back and redrawn like the black surface. I am loving it! It is totally drawing, no painted washes of color involved at all. My inner Van Gogh is...
moreTHINGS ARE LOOKING UP
20" wide by 16" tall
MARCUS ASHLEY
The Grizzly Encounter is a great place to get good photos of our awesome friends. I have not been blessed by the real experience in the outdoors, but I actually prefer this way. I also love the backlighting on this handsome guy.
moreTHE EYE HAS IT Ultra Limited Edition available
60"x18"
I am a lover of being ones own boss. I also say the best committee is a committee of ONE, therefor the title of this piece, a play on words of course. The eye itself is the only part of the piece that seems centered and not full of anxiety and confusion, kind of like the Hurricane we went through as I was working on this piece!
moreSAD EYE SOLD
24" wide by 36" tall
I know it's been done before but it is truly a challenge to do it in scratchboard. Keeping the crack lines on the hide black while removing the lighter areas is harder than anything one does in the medium. Fur and feathers are very easy, so I am working toward my ultimate challenge of a full sized Elephant.
moreCHARDONNAY MONKEY
24" tall x 18" wide
MARCUS ASHLEY GALLERY
This young Vervet looks not to be old enough to drink, but all ages are known to steal your drinks while you are not watching them and on Safari. The wine is well paired with my favorite water crackers and Aged Parmesan, Smoked Gouda and Brie (Triple creame, of course). Yum
morePINA COLADA MONKEY
24" tall x 18" wide
MARCUS ASHLEY GALLERY
Number seven in my Monkey business is a fun Lemur, basking in the tropical sunshine with his very 'beachy" drink, umbrellas and all.
moreMOJITO MONKEY SOLD
24' tall x 18" wide
This very Mod Colobus Monkey is number nine in my series and looks the 'Metro' part. It is only fitting that he sports a chic modern drink, especially because he is a leaf eater!
moreMY WHAT A LOVELY PAIR OF BONGOS
36" wide by 36" tall
Mathew McConnahey where are you. This piece was done to commemorate his nude bongo playing in South Austin. Not really but I did put in a very tribal design that looks as if it would be found on a drum. These Bongos were from the Sanctuary at Fossil Rim outside of Dallas. They really are a handsome pair.
moreSOME DAYS A COUPLE OF KIDS REALLY GET YOUR GOAT
24"wide by 18" tall
When my first two grandkids were young, I took them to an apple orchard to pick apples with out their parents for the first time. We rode the hay wagon, picked apples, then went to a petting zoo on the farm. I certainly can relate to the whole scene after that day. I was pooped and they were too.
morePAPA BEAR SOLD
36x36
Is he gentle or not? If I was Goldilocks I would not stick around to find out. Stop in at the gallery in Santa Fe to see if she is there along with the rest of the bears!
moreBABY BEAR SOLD
18 x 24
MANITOU GALLERY SOLD
This sweet baby looks as if someone stole his porridge or slept in his bed, doesn't he? This was created as part of the Tales of Enchantment show in Santa Fe, NM He did not last long!
moreWILD HORSES SOLD
24" X36"
Pitt Pen drawing on Clayboard from a photo that I took when I visited the Pine Nut Herd of Carson Valley Nevada. There will be more like this. It was a stunning adventure!
moreHELLO THERE LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ( YOU SURE ARE LOOKING GOOD) SOLD
12 x 24
MANITOU GALLERY SOLD
A yummy ode to the fairy tale with a magnificent looking wolf. On view in Santa Fe
moreWAY TOO LONG HORN #1 SOLD
60 X 36
moreBECOME THE BEAR SOLD Ultra Limited Edition Print available
36" wide by 60" tall
MARCUS ASHLEY GALLERY
Hurricane Harvey hit us hard. My former studio and George's Used Car Dealership was totally submerged underwater from the Colorado River in Texas. The storm sat just to the North of it and emptied rain for three days. When we knew that the "cone of opportunity" showed it's path to be straight at out town, we were a thousand miles away. All we could do was sit and watch it move closer and direct actions from afar. We managed to minimize the effects and recoup much quicker than most. I wanted to capture the feeling of being doomed, but...
morePRECARIOUS POSITION SOLD
24" wide by 72" tall
This piece arose from the decisions that needed to be made during the Corona Virus in 2020. I can only imagine how the Judges, Mayors and Governors must feel every time they need to decide what to do and what restrictions to impose on their constituents. Let alone what parents feel about schooling their children and what is best for them. As you will note, This female Cougar is balanced on several branches but has weight on the min trunk as well. she has a goal spotted but in order to take the leap she must carefully redistribute her weight or the branches will...
moreDAY DREAMER SOLD
12" tall x 24" wide
I guess I am on a big cat fixation, specifically Mountain Lions. this beautiful one was not to be resisted. I used it at my new gallery to show the folks exactly how you do a scratchboard piece. It did not get done for a long time because I always had to stop and explain things. Once I took it back to the studio, I made a great deal more headway on it. It turned out to be looking more dreamy eyed that focused or fixated. I may revisit it at another time and cropping and put a bit of intensity in those eyes, but for now there is nothing wrong with dreaming!
moreWATCH THE BIRDIE SOLD
18" wide by 24" tall
MANITOU GALLERIES SOLD
We first visited Santa Fe to bring artwork and meet the personnel of Manitou Galleries. It was springtime and all of the trees were in full bloom. I made sure I had brought my camera and took many photos of the blossoms as well as the many birds. The top half of this piece was from a photo taken right i the courtyard of the Canyon Road gallery. I knew I just had to use this scene somehow, and the challenge to have two animals was enough to make me figure out haw to do it. The young cougar photo was one I thought I would never use. It...
moreLONE WOLF SOLD Available as an Ultra Limited edition print
36" X 24"
I refer to this piece privately as Solitude because it is more about choosing to be alone versus being isolated.
moreLEAN IN SOLD Ultra Limited Edition available
24" wide by 60" tall
AWA AWARD WINNER AT STEAMBOAT SPRINGS MUSEUM
Cats are my love, as are powerful messages. This female cougar is poised to jump and has her eye on the prize. I echoed the message of Sheryl Sanders book by titling it “Lean In”. There is no turning back now but getting to that point of courage has taken women a long time. We are still reinforcing each other as is seen by the new Advertisement for Bumble, a dating app, which says “Make the first move”. That applies to life not just relationships. Many opportunities are lost by women because we hesitate. Believe!...
moreFOCUS SOLD
24" tall x 24"wide
MARCUS ASHLEY ART GALLERY
I chose this piece as the first to work on after a long time off. I needed to get back in the groove and get productive but had lost my own Focus, so I chose this guy. Sometimes your mood inspires the art you choose and sometimes the art serves to change your mood, much like music.
moreCHANCE ENCOUNTER SOLD
18" tall x 24" wide
December finds the rut in full force in the Northern section of the Bitterroot-Selway Wilderness. A friend of mine surprised these two while he was fishing a secluded stream. They watched him with as much wonder as he watched them. They stayed around long enough for him to snap a great photo capture off. I have tried my best to replicate it using India Ink Markers and scratchboard techniques. This is a brand new medium which I LOVE!
moreBIG DOG-CHIHUAHUA
triptych 56" wide by 24" tall
This is just the beginning of my "Big Dog" series of larger than life portraits of dog faces. The ears are detachable and each of the parts are actually boxes with scratchboard on the one surface. Very unusual. It made it into the Society of Animal Artists' Annual Show and is currently touring the nation going from one museum to another. Always thinking on the box, not outside of it!
moreAFRICAN RHINO
13" x 13"
Handsome as he is, most would not think of him as pretty yet the designs from 1997 sure make him. I enjoyed taking primative symbols from tribal designs and making them into the corner inserts.
moreAFRICAN LION
13" x 13"
Handsome as he is, most would not think of him as pretty yet the designs from 1997 sure make him. I enjoyed taking primitive symbols from tribal designs and making them into the corner inserts.
moreAFRICAN GORILLA
13"wide by 13"tall
Handsome as he is, most would not think of him as pretty yet the designs from 1997 sure make him. I enjoyed taking primative symbols from tribal designs and making them into the corner inserts.
moreAFRICAN HIPPO
13" wide by 13" tall
One of my designs from 1997 which I completed in 2014. I sure enjoyed doing these then as well as now.
moreAFRICAN LEOPARD
13" wide by 13" tall
I designed the border for this in 1997 but was able to put one of my own lion photos in it instead of the one I had designed in 2014.
moreAFRICAN CAPE BUFFALO
13" wide by 13" tall
All of these pieces are also available as silk scarves. I am so happy I found my old designs and added new animal images to them. The tribal patterns on each reflect the feeling of each individual animal.
moreYIN YANG SOLD
36" wide by 24" tall
We wanted to try Koi in our small waterlily pond, but went with the less expensive and more adaptable Goldfish first to try it out. Good thing we did because the Raccoons ate them and the pond got green quickly so we converted it to a fountain/reflecting pond that we can add chlorine to and keep clean.
morePORT O'CONNER REFLECTION
24" wide by 18" tall
I don't know any time of day and any other place that is more peaceful and beautiful but dawn on the ocean. We fish out of Port O'Conner and bait up in the canal. The light was just catching the water when I snapped a photo that I interpreted for this piece. I can almost smell the salt air when I look at it.
moreCOTTONWOOD REFLECTION
24" wide by 18" tall
During my "Reflections" period, I photographed many bodies of water. This was the entry bridge to Cottonwood Park in Richardson, TX, that led into the semi-annual art show there. It was one of my favorite shows and settings. Ducks usually swam along with geese on this pond creating wonderful images.
moreSHARK TANK REFLECTION
24" wide by 18" tall
Chicago's Shed Aquarium yielded this unusual reflection. It is actually looking up at the surface of the water with the lights reflecting on it. If you look carefully you can make out one of the sharks!
morePAST PRIME? SOLD Ultra Limited Edition print available
I took this photo while on an animal photo trip, on the last day. The lighting was perfect and I kept is aside for about 12 years because the flower was wilting. Now that I am using the Pitt Pen Markers with intense color, I revisited this subject. It turned out so beautifully that I had to give it this name to make all of us stop and think about the aging process and exactly when IS "prime". This flower has yet to fully develop and put forth it's seeds after is has been pollinated. So even if it's glow is fading, it will enrich us even more by going to seed and bringing another...
moreCOMPASSION SOLD
24"x24"
I seem to always gravitate toward my own photographs that show some type of emotion. This surely does, with the wolves exhibiting common canine behavior. It brought me back to the day when my spouse and I realized all we had worked for at his business was going under water in a flood. We could do nothing about it but hold each other and cry.
moreFORBIDDEN FRUIT SOLD Ultra Limited Edition print avalable
36" x36"
This was another of my experimental pieces, half done with India Ink Marker on Claybord and the bottom done MY traditional method of cutting the black Scratchbord and then painting in washes of colored India Ink. I was trying for depth and certainly got it here. "Striking" is a term I often hear applied to this piece. Photo credit for snake: Steve Pettit. (I would never be that close to one!)
moreCHAMBERED NAUTILUS SOLD
36" wide by 30" tall
I have the actual shell that posed for this piece, but I dropped it and it shattered. I have glued it back together, but it will never be the same. I love the design that nature makes.
moreADORATION SOLD
24" wide X 22" tall
MANITOU GALLERY SOLD
One more human emotion that can be visualized in animals is that of adoration. These guys are going through their greeting ritual and pure love is shown right here, right now. I just thouroughly enjoy watching animals do this. Wolves are not the only ones as our own domestic house cats do it when they have been separated for a while.
moreMOUNT RAMSMORE SOLD Ultra Limited Edition print available
24' by 48" wide
You may remember the "sketch that I did last year of this Monumental piece. It was done using colored India Ink markers and turned out spectacular. I debated using Silver Leafing for the sky in the original because I loved the contrast of the bright sky to the dark rugged mountain the real monument was carver out of. When I put it out to the general public, they liked the black background best. SOOOOO I decided to keep my options open and will offer the prints with either Gold/Copper/Silver foil skies or plain black. You will see that I DID use gloss varnish on the...
moreBE BEAR AWARE SOLD Ultra Limited Edition print available
36" tall by 48" wide
Yes, he is HUGE. And he is gentle yet strong, a very powerful piece. I named him this because it seems that signs are everywhere once you get to the Rocky Mountains to carry Bear Spray and Be Bear Aware. With one this size, that is guaranteed.
moreFULL MOON SOLD Ultra Limited Edition available
24"TALL X 36" WIDE
This is my first true Nocturnal piece. I drew one view of this Longhorn as a daylight piece and then flipped the photo over to do this one. I chose to view the night sky at exactly the time ( two chances, actually) that the moon shadow would be cast in the same direction as the sun shadow did. I took a screenshot using my iPad and an App to secure where the constellations and Milky Way would be at that time. The real trick was to determine how white the whites would be under a full moon. I revisited that just befoe painting this and planted it in my memory as NO...
moreCASUAL OBSERVER SOLD
24" TALL X 36" WIDE
I enjoy the subtleness of this huge cat, just draped over some tree limbs. Many times this is my own choice rather than jumping into the fray. No comment, just sit back and see what the others have to say or what they are doing. Just live my own life!
moreWHAT AN ASS SOLD
18' tall x 24"wide
Hmmm, in the current environment politically speaking, this could apply to a LOT of people out there?
moreMUSTANG SALLY SOLD
24" tall x 36" wide
Another of my "Magic Marker" drawings using the Pitt Pens on Claybord white. This is a reinterpretation of my original "Wild Thing " done in colored scratchboard. Since I have just completed my second bronze featuring this horse, I felt it needed a companion piece.
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