Sunday, February 6, 2011

"Morning's Call" by Kristin Jurist Haakenson


Morning's Call
acrylic on canvas
24" x 12"
$625 framed
Available for purchase from Freshwater Studio & Gallery, Dillon, MT


This was my first attempt at painting an elk, and surprisingly enough, I found that the antlers were my favorite part of the process...I had assumed that they'd drive me batty. I mixed more of that lovely iridescent gold paint in with my pigments. I dripped paint from the bottom of the canvas toward the top to vaguely suggest the appearance of a field.

Have you ever heard an elk's bugle, by the way? It's a really surprising sound for such a massive creature to make.

Kristin Jurist Haakenson

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