The Herd on the Hill
15”x20” acrylic on paper
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This painting is almost entirely a monochrome of grays. I added only subtle touches of creamy orange and yellow on the mule deer standing on the ridge. It is based on a photo I took while driving the loop at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Denver, Colorado, which has herds of both mule deer and white-tailed deer. Painting acrylic on paper is a medium I don’t often explore, so it was a fun change of pace to create a set of deer paintings in acrylic with nearly-monochromatic color schemes.