“Winter Travelers”
Oil pencil & drybrush
2022 ($200. Please email dterrydraw@aol.com or private message if interested in purchase)
I should, perhaps, title this “Winter Orphans”. I (having forgotten that I’d ever done it) found it, today, in last year’s portfolio. It was commissioned by a rather manic, a bit overly enthusiastic woman in Winchester who later went AWOL (not really such a surprise to me). In any case, I still have it, and it’s for sale….for those who like wolves.
I should perhaps emphasize that, while I LIKE wolves and think that they’re beautiful, I’m not one to anthropomorphize them and go around babbling about spirit catchers and my “totem animal”. I do like reading about them and various conservation efforts, but I know full well that, in a hard winter, a pack of them would eat me and my little dogs up for lunch,
I do regularly think that it wouldn’t be bad to have a FEW wolves back in the North Carolina piedmont. They’d kill the coyotes which are rapidly infiltrating the state and which would, indeed, kill and eat my terriers (And my neighbor’s cats) in a flash.
And if you are actually ocncerned about wildlife/wolves/ranching/conservation?…”friend” Cat Urbigkit on Facebook. She’s a widely-published and deservedly renowned specialist in such matter…..living out on her Wyoming ranch. She’s a good writer and a great photographer. Her page is one of my daily doses of good sense and (as a bonus) beauty.
Cat Stevens was, as ever, RIGHT…..”Oooh, Baby, Baby/It’s a wild world..
