Raccoon Baby — Bag Insects and Butterflies the whisker arrangement — rendered

the whisker arrangement — rendered with complete precision

Each bag is printed to gallery standards and built to carry the conversation wherever you go

just applied to an unfamiliar species

the way the animal uses its front paws like hands

He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts whose watercolour wildlife studies set the standard for the form in Canada

Raccoon Baby — Bag Insects and Butterflies the whisker arrangement — renderedA 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