Stalking Lynx — Gallery Canvas Print Size:20" x 30" the leaves turning

the leaves turning

no sky — just the leaves themselves as a compositional subject

requires complete confidence in the handling of the watercolour

This spring flowering composition captures the bird at its most vocal and the tree at its most spectacular

Stalking Lynx — Gallery Canvas Print Size:20" x 30" the leaves turningA Canada Lynx advances directly toward the viewer head low, eyes fixed, enormous snowshoe paws lifting and placing with the deliberate silence of a cat that has been hunting this way its entire life. The coloured pencil rendering gives the lynx's winter coat extraordinary depth: the grey ticked fur, the black ear tufts, the pale facial ruff, all built up in layered pencil marks that suggest both the animal's mass and the softness of its dense winter