Wildlife Images Murals
and Paintings
Wildlife Images is a company in Scottsdale that does big game award winning taxidermy, some of the best in the world. To see their website, click HERE. Many of their clients, from all over the world have game rooms set up to display their animals in what appears to be natural settings. I paint the dioramas for this purpose. My goals in painting these scenes are first, to make it as realistic as if you were there in the wild, using the rules of nature…sun angles, correct colors, correct plants scattered into a natural “organized chaos” pattern and making what was once merely a white wall, disappear…not being able to tell the painting from the foreground features, ceiling or adjoining walls, where one ends and the other begins
the fun part of this diorama was playing tricks of the eye with the rocks and plants. The flash on my camera distorted the color a bit, but you get the idea. The spindily long cactus skeletons were fun to do. Some of them are real, some are painted. Ditto with the prickily pear with the red fruits. I’ll try to get an image up after the animals are installed.
This is a very quick (about 20 minutes) acrylic painting on some elephant hide I was practicing on. I look forward to doing a major painting on this.
My goal in doing this painting was to make it look like the painting is a natural part of the skin, not just a picture stamped on some skin a’la Elvis on black velvet. Natural colors were essential.
THE LION HUNTERS oil painting (24×30″) commissioned by the hunters
AND THE LATEST…(SEE BELOW)
THIS IS A SMALL PART OF THE CROCODILE DIORAMA. IT WILL BE FEATURED IN THE PAINTING PROGRESSIONS (CHECK IT OUT IN “PAINTING PROGRESSIONS…IF IT’S NOT UP YET, IT WILL BE UP REAL SOON. IM WAITING FOR IT’S FINAL INSTALLATION. THE CROCODILE IS STILL DRYING (YECH).
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