Time was the deer wandered in and out of my back yard after a few neighbor trees and one of my own fell on my fences. I got probably hundreds of photos of the deer in my back yard in those years, and a couple of paintings, like this one.

It was years before I managed to clean that up. I added some pretty stout fences around my yard this spring to keep the deer from eating my vegetables, but some pieces weren’t as strong as others and in time the deer created a few openings. That’s okay, now I know and I am busy patching things. And they still have the front yard.

This was exciting about 7:00 a.m., wildlife right outside my dining room window. I’m sitting there at my table by the window with kitties Sienna and Bella reading our emails, then out of the corner of my eye I see movement at the bottom of the window and it’s antlers, the buck walking up from the side of the house to the front yard. Too bad my camera didn’t wake up fast enough to get a picture of him right there when he looked just as surprised as I’m sure Bella, Sienna and I did.

Though the deer in my back yard are in plain sight of about six houses and all of us watch them, they apparently felt they were safe—and they were, really, because when I looked at the reference photo for this I wondered why I’d taken a photo of the brush at the end of the yard, and then I saw the ears. It was the perfect cover, hidden in plain sight.

Where to find “Safe”

“Safe” is painted in various pastels on Strathmore pastel paper from my photo references. This work was one of my new paintings for the 2015 Wings & Wildlife Art Show at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh.

I sold the original but still have various prints on paper and canvas including one framed print. The print is 15.5″w x 12.5″h in a 20″w x 17″h, 1.25″ wide fruitwood frame with a cream black-core mat.

Remember that I order larger prints and canvases as they are ordered from customers.

 

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Purchase a Print

You can find “Safe” in my gallery of Available Original Art and my gallery of Wildlife Artwork.

 

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SHIPPING AND CHARGES

Shipping within the US is included in the cost of each print.

Prints up to 16″ x 20″ are shipped flat in a rigid envelope. Larger prints are shipped rolled in a mailing tube unless otherwise requested; flat shipping is an extra cost because it’s oversized.

GICLEE PRINTS

The giclees are printed on acid-free hot press art paper for a smooth matte finish using archival inks. Giclee is the highest quality print available because the technique uses a dozen or more ink ports to capture all the nuances of the original painting, including details of the texture, far more sensitive than any other printing medium. Sometimes my giclees look so much like my originals that even I have a difficult time telling them apart when they are in frames.

I don’t keep giclee prints in stock for most of my works. Usually I have giclees printed as they are ordered unless I have an exhibit where I’ll be selling a particular print so there is a wait of up to two weeks before receipt of your print to allow for time to print and ship.

DIGITAL PRINTS

Digital prints are made on acid-free matte-finish natural white 100# cover using archival digital inks. While digital prints are not the quality of a giclee in capturing every nuance and detail of color, texture and shading, I am still very pleased with the outcome and usually only I as the artist, could tell where detail and color were not as sharp as the original. Digital prints are only available up to 11″ x 17″ and some of the prints are cropped to fit standard mat and frame sizes.

Digital prints have at least 1/2″ around the edges depending on the size of the print. All are countersigned by me.

CANVAS PRINTS

Because the standard size canvas prints are not proportional to the original painting, canvas prints of this painting will have a portion cropped off.

I usually have at least one of the smaller sizes of canvases on hand, but order larger ones as they are ordered because I have limited storage space. Smaller canvases are a 3/4″ in depth, Canvases 12 x 16 and larger are 1-1/2″ in depth. I set them up so the image runs from edge to edge, then the sides are black or white or sometimes I slip in a color that coordinates with the painting. This canvas mirrors the edges of the image around the sides.

FRAMED PRINTS

I do all my own framing and can custom frame a print for you. Please ask.

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