Fawn — Framed Piece Oil Pastel and red wattles

and red wattles

The wildflower above them

but what makes the painting extraordinary is the water

The grey-blue mountain rock

A White-tailed Deer at the forest edge — the animal's autumn coat warm against the turning leaves behind it

Fawn — Framed Piece Oil Pastel and red wattlesA whitetail fawn lies curled in a spring forest clearing white spots vivid on its rust red coat, the large dark eye completely trusting, trilliums and violets around it. This is the painting that defines the fawn in Canadian wildlife art: the animal perfectly still, perfectly camouflaged against the dappled forest floor, placed in the specific botanical world of an Ontario May morning with botanical precision. The trillium Ontario's provincial flower