Mom & Me

This is a 24" x 18" original ink, watercolor, and gouache painting on aquabord, framed in a hand-leafed gold floater frame. 
 
"Mom & Me" is a painting inspired by an evening drive back home to Gunnison after work at Oh Be Joyful Gallery. Each night, I'd stop at the little fox den just north of town and photograph the kits and their mother until the sun went down. This particular night, I had snapped a few photos and went on my way - thinking from the distance that I watched, that the kit fox was simply standing behind its mother. On further inspection when I got home and opened the images on my computer, I realized the kit was actually giving its mom a hug, arms wrapped playfully around her neck.