A Scent on the Wind

This is an original 11" x 14" ink, watercolor, and gouache painting on aquabord. The painting is in a simple, walnut floater frame.
 
"A Scent on the Wind" is a piece inspired by a hike to the top of Augusta Mountain during which I unexpectedly encountered several velvet bucks scavenging for grasses up near treeline. Always hopeful for a (safely distant) mountain lion encounter, my imagination put together a scene of the mule deer peeking over a rock face as he ever so subtly picked up the scent of a lion on the wind.