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New Painting: Salad for Dinner

3/21/2021

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A few weeks ago when the ice on lake Icaria was melting, hundreds of geese and ducks were migrating through this little edge of Iowa.
canada geese flying
Picture
migrating ducks swimming
Though we mostly saw Canada geese and cackling geese, we also saw greater white-fronted geese (lifer!), wood ducks, canvas backs, ring-necked ducks, greater scaup (lifer!), lesser scaup (another lifer!), red-headed ducks, coots, pied-billed grebes, northern shovelers, mallards, common mergansers, american wigeon, green-winged teal, northern pintail, snow geese, ross's geese (and another lifer!), trumpeter swans, common golden-eye, hooded merganser, bufflehead and this strange looking bird... 
muskrat on lake icaria

which I know, I know, isn't a bird... but he is the cutest muskrat ever...

Now I love birds, most of my travels surround birds, and many, many, of my paintings, are bird inspired... but I have a very soft spot for little mammals - Squirrels, rabbits, otters, beavers, and even muskrats. So of course, this muskrat became my new favorite model over the next few weeks as we watched the birds arrive each evening on the lake.

We did of course take thousands and thousands of photos of birds for future inspiration, but I was a little distracted...
muskrat icaria lake
muskrat swimming
muskrat on ice
muskrat in iowa
muskrat eating
Which of course led to sketching the adorable fur ball...
muskrat sketches
muskrat sketch
muskrat on ice sketch

and all those sketches, led to a new pastel:

muskrat pastel painting
Salad for dinner, pastel, 13x18" More details
The ice is gone now (hello spring!!) So we haven't seen our muskrat friend around recently. And at the same time, our migrating waterfowl have moved on to the next stop on their journey to their breeding grounds. Lake Icaria is a little quieter now. But I'm still looking for our muskrat friend, because though there may be no ice to eat salad on, he'll be hanging around with us through the spring - which probably means more muskrat art to come!
muskrat on lake icaria in iowa
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