Mutually Beneficial

This is a 12" x 16" original ink, watercolor, and gouache painting on aquabord, in a walnut floater frame.
 
"Mutually Beneficial" explores the relationship between wolves and ravens, who share a remarkable partnership in which ravens use their keen eyesight to locate carcasses and often lead wolves to potential food, while wolves use their strength to open the carcass, providing ravens access to meat they could not reach on their own. In return, ravens may alert wolves to prey or scavenging opportunities and even distract prey, creating a mutually beneficial relationship that has evolved over thousands of years in the wild.