Brande Arno Art

Back Wolf, 8 x 8 inches, Oil on Board, $100.00 It has been far too long since I've been at the easel.  I don't like it when there are painting lapses.  But today, I painted. Back Wolf  got finished and I'm more than happy with the outcome. I like that wolves work and live in packs.  That they need and respect the alpha and the alpha knows how important each wolf is to the pack.  I have my very own wolf (ok, mini-schnauzer) named Cooper. Cooper let me know the other night that he still has deep, unresolved issues about clipping his nails.  If you try to cut off more than just the slightest tip from his nails the wolf gene comes out.      

I decided this morning, that I needed to paint a wolf.  Wolves are very misunderstood on both ends of logic.  Far extreme in one direction would be fear and shooting them on sight.  The other extreme is trying to make them into domestic pets. It is my opinion that either way, the wolf looses.  They are beautiful creatures and admired for their hierarchy of the pack. Rudyard Kipling wrote about this in The Law of the Jungle : "Now this is the law of the Jungle--as old and true as the sky; and the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper but the Wolf that shall break it must die.  As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back--For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack." This baby wolf is waiting for the return of his mom.  Even though this wolf is very young, the way the painting turned out, you can see the strength of the pack in his eyes.