Snow Geese, Blue Morph
by Barry Kent MacKay
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$850
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20.000 x 16.000 x 0.250 inches
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Title
Snow Geese, Blue Morph
Artist
Barry Kent MacKay
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Compressed Hardboard
Description
The Snow Goose (Answer caerulescens) is native to arctic regions from Siberia east through Alaska and Northern Canada to Greenland. A few are also found in northwestern Europe where most (but not all) probably escaped from captivity or descended from escaped captives. The scientific name refers to a goose that is dark blue or bluish in colour, and as you can see from the painting, it fits, sort of. There are pale blue-gray areas on the wings, while I had to mix cobalt blue with raw brown umber to match the dark body colour. But the English name derives from the fact that most Snow Geese have pure white plumage, with black primary feathers (wing tips). Thus there are two colour morphs of the same species, the highly variable dark morph, that I have shown in the painting, and the white morph. Originally, they were understandably thought to be two separate species, the “Blue Goose”, which was the first discovered and formally named by science, and the “Snow Goose”, originally named as a separate species. I’ve shown a pair of fairly typical “blue” geese, but there are all manner of combinations of colour and pattern between them, and the birds that are mostly white. The painting is in acrylics on compressed hardboard and is 16 X 20 inches in size. $850.00.
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