River Otters
by Barry Kent MacKay
Original - Sold
Price
$700
Dimensions
16.000 x 20.000 x 0.250 inches
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Title
River Otters
Artist
Barry Kent MacKay
Medium
Painting - Oil On Compressed Hardboard
Description
This painting of River Otters (Lontra canadensis) was inspired by a dram in which someone called to me, “There are otters at the bottom of the garden!” In my dream there was a small wetland in the back yard, below an embankment, and as I looked down I saw an otter looking up at me while her cubs played around her. I was about to experiment with a “loose” form of oil painting, anyway, and it seemed to me that the image from my dream would make a good subject. I was sort of aiming for the effect of images I remember seeing in my favourite children’s books, cheerful and bright but not anthropomorphic or terribly inaccurate. I have battled more than one children’s literature editor about kids’ illustrations; in my view there is no need to “cartoonize” pictures of animals; certainly when I was very little I most loved, for example, the realistic Walter A. Weber paintings in National Geographic magazine, and the colourful but realistic images of other early to mid-20th century wildlife painters. The painting is approximately 20 x 16 inches, in oils on the textured side of acid-free compressed hardboard (Masonite). $700. Sold
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April 3rd, 2021
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