My watercolor painting, “Wolf Watchers” will join the 2018-2019 Utah Watercolor Society Traveling Exhibition. First stop will be the Utah State Capitol Building from June 2, 2018 – August 20, 2018. It is a great show and worth taking the time to check it out.
My husband and I were traveling through Yellowstone National Park when we saw a gathering of people on the top of a knoll. They had spotting scopes and cameras. The air was filled with excitement as the group scanned the distance for wolves. You could feel the energy. I wanted to capture that excitement with watercolor.
The attention was so focused on the distant view, that I thought a wolf could walk right past them and they would never see it. One of the ladies said that happened a few weeks before. A lone wolf had walked up the draw right next to the group.
I tried to capture the excitement of the day by using angles and body language and I had to put the wolf in the picture. Below is the sketch that I did for the painting. I did a color study for the painting and when I added the white at the end , the painting pulled together. So I kept the whites in mind and left them as I painted the painting.
You can read more about the Utah Watercolor Society’s traveling exhibition at www.heritage.utah.gov-2018 Utah Watercolor society.
I love your painting.
Thanks MaryAnn. It will be fun to have it hang in the Capitol Building.
This is an amazing painting!
Thanks Susan. I really enjoyed painting this one.
Thanks Susan. I really enjoyed painting this one,
Congratulations!!! The excitement definitely is tangible in the painting. You captured it. I love it.
Thanks Shaunda.