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Call of the Wild - Bald Eagle

I have shown this bald eagle in a dynamic calling pose and have used the angular thrust of the dead tree to add to the force of the bird. - R. B.

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Canada Geese Family

This is my first published original stone lithograph.  I very much enjoyed drawing directly on the stone.  Its "tooth," or texture, gives a solid, warm feeling, which brings to mind the ancient seas in which the rare Bavarian limestone was formed. - R. B.

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Canada Geese in Winter

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Canada Geese - Nesting

Canada geese, for me, are symbols of fidelity and territoriality.  I see them as forceful, direct birds.  In this painting I was thinking about the bond between the two and have shown the male on guard, watchful and alert, and the female on the nest. - R. B.

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Canada Geese Over the Escarpment

This was the view from my studio when I lived in Ontario.  It was different every day, even every hour, as the light changed and as the season changed.  Here I have shown part of a small flight of Canada geese heading south just at sunset.  In a sense, they fit with the rhythm of the seasons. - R. B.

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Canada Geese with Young

Geese and swans are famous in the animal kingdom for their faithfulness as partners; they usually mate for life.  With Canada geese, both parents are involved in rearing the young.  The parents stay together season after season. It has been said that if one of the pair dies, the other will not mate again. - R. B.

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Canada Goose

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Canada Warbler and Pear Blossoms

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Cape May Warbler and Balsam

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Cardinal and Snowberries

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Cardinal and Sumac

One of the ideas behind Cardinal and Sumac was inspired by a Smithsonian Museum display of an authentic East Indian village, complete with villagers going about their daily business.  I was strolling through when, all of a sudden, a villager wearing a flaming red turban walked past a rich, terra cotta-colored wall.  I was struck by the red-on-red vision - it just sizzled.  I knew then, I would someday paint a cardinal in sumac.   Most North Americans have the opportunity to see cardinals in their own backyards.  The cardinal, however exotic in color, is one of our most familiar favorites.  I like the idea of the cardinal as a representative for Earth Day; it is appropriate that a backyard favorite represent our need to incorporate environmental action into our own backyards. - R. B.

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Cardinal and Sumac
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Cardinal and Wild Apples

These apples were growing on my favorite apple tree in Ontario.  This is a unique tree producing fruit unlike any I have tasted - sweet, aromatic, crisp, juicy and almost lacking in sourness.  It will remain forever wild with its unsprayed and blemished fruit. - R. B.

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Catching the Light - Barn Owl

The most intriguing artistic challenge in this painting was to capture the quality of the slash of light striking across the feathers of the owl, breaking up the obvious shape of the bird into a new and fleeting pattern. - R. B.

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Catching the Scent - Wolf

Like man's best friend, the wolf gets most of his information through his nose. On a cold winter day, the air is carrying a constant flow of data.  Whether these molecular messages relate to a partner, a prey or an enemy, we do not know.  But the wolf knows. - R. B.

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Cattails, Fireweed and Yellowthroat

Marshes and swamps are a wonderful place for life - not just human life - particularly if you are a naturalist.  Spring is my favorite time in these wetlands with the chorus of frogs, toads, dragonflies and other insects and especially breeding birds from ducks to rails, bitterns and songbirds. - R. B.

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Centennial Farm

I enjoy painting man-made subjects from earlier eras because they have character and individuality.  It is evident that they have been worked on by the human hand and by the forces of nature.  This can no longer be said of our machine-made, packaged world, which is increasingly enveloping us. - R. B.

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Ceremonial Pose - Red-Crowned Crane

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The Challenge - Bull Moose

A moose is an intimidating animal.  A big bull is huge - weighing up to half a ton and standing up to seven-and-a-half feet tall at the shoulder - but is amazingly swift and graceful when moving through thick forest and underbrush. - R. B.

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Chapel Door

Our human heritage is just as threatened as our natural heritage.  This is sad, because we are losing the reminders of our roots and a time when craftsmanship and care were more important than today.  Although I usually choose nature as the subjects of my paintings, I also want to record the remnants of our history. - R. B.

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Chaps - Western Bluebird

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Charging Rhino

The black rhinoceros is a prehistoric-looking beast.  In fact, although it is highly evolved, it does have a very ancient history.  He and his ancestors roamed the plains of this planet long before man appeared.  In the last ten years, poachers have caused the rhino population to decline by 90%. I have shown him here in his bold and rugged defiance. - R. B.

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Cheetah Profile

The cheetah is an animal of the wide-open plains.  That is where his prey, the antelope, lives, and that is where he can see vast distances.  Although he has no serious enemies, he likes to watch the herds for vulnerable animals and to generally keep in touch with his surroundings. - R. B.

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Cheetah Siesta

In the big-game country of Africa I am always aware of the huge, overpowering, blue sky, especially at places like the Amboseli plain in southern Kenya, shown here in Cheetah Siesta.  I wanted to feel the presence of the sky in this picture, but I had to be persuaded by my wife, Birgit, that I could put the horizon as low as it is and still have room for the cheetah and the plain.  I also had to resist the temptation to let more tall grasses stretch across the horizon, or to introduce a cruising vulture in the distant sky.  By leaving it empty, the sky becomes as strong a force in the picture as the cheetah itself. - R. B.

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Cheetah with Cubs

Cheetahs are animals of the open plain.  Their eyes are a match for their legs in devouring the miles. - R. B.

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Cherrywood with Juncos

Juncos come down to the snow-covered farmland to feed on the seeds from the crops and the weeds in roadsides and fields. - R. B.

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Chickadee and Rose Hips

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Chickadee on Pinecone

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Chief - American Bison

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Chimney Swift on Nest

The chimney swift uses its saliva as glue to stick twigs together while building his nest.  In ancient times, they built nests inside hollow trees, and today more commonly they use abandoned chimneys for that purpose.  Recently I discovered a chimney swift's nest on the old wallpaper of an upper hall in an abandoned farmhouse.  In this case, the old house has provided shelter to a new family. - R. B.

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Chinstrap Penguin

There are many species of penguin in the Southern Hemisphere.  They all have special characteristics, but they have in common the tuxedo-like black on the back and white on the belly.  This painting is simply a portrait of one of these little fellows standing beside the typical lichen-encrusted rock of the Antarctic Peninsula. - R. B.

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Clan of the Raven

I have long had a passionate appreciation for the artistic achievements of indigenous people, and none more so than the magnificent totem poles carved by the native inhabitants of the northwest Pacific coast. These exquisite abstract sculptures in wood represent for me the pinnacle of indigenous art. They are as beautiful and powerful as anything created by Picasso or Matisse.  Unfortunately, the few old poles that remain in their natural settings are decaying and returning to the forest. - R. B.

I do not mean this to be a frightening picture.  The wolves, which normally avoid eye contact, are staring right at you.  Although they sense your presence, they can't quite make you out.  They are alert and interested, but not about to attack.  They are equal to you, the viewer; they are on the same level.  The feeling of slight tension and respect between you and them is mutual.  You are in their domain.  Now that they know about you they will melt away into the gloom. - R. B.

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Clear Night - Wolves

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I do not mean this to be a frightening picture.  The wolves, which normally avoid eye contact, are staring right at you.  Although they sense your presence, they can't quite make you out.  They are alert and interested, but not about to attack. They are equal to you, the viewer; they are on the same level.  The feeling of slight tension and respect between you and them is mutual.  You are in their domain.  Now that they know about you they will melt away into the gloom. - R. B.

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Colonial Garden

In Colonial Garden I have tried to show the classic elegance and civilized restraint which the late 18^th and early 19^th centuries brought to a more rustic Canada. - R. B.

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Continuing Generations - Spotted Owls

The spotted owl is one of the rarest birds in North America.  They should be on the endangered species list.  Since they require large acreage of old growth lowland forest, their existence is inevitably threatened by clear-cut lumbering activities.  To me, the spotted owl represents almost a mystical spirit of the great western forest, as it was when white man first arrived.  It would be a pity if the last of the owls were to vanish in this generation. - R. B.

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Cottage Lane - Red Fox

The summer colors have started to turn to autumn colors, and the cherry leaves are showing signs of following suit.  There is the golden glow of a late summer evening back-lighting the delicate northern grasses. - R. B.

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Cougar and Kit

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Cougar in the Snow

The cougar is, of course, one of the few great hunters left among the ranks of North American wildlife.  The cougar is now extinct in most of his original range, but in some areas, particularly in the West, it is doing quite well. - R. B.

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Cougar Portrait

The cougar is one of the most magnificent animals in North America, and it is one of the great cats of the world.  Although its range was formerly most of the continent in many habitats, competition with man has pushed it back to a few of the more remote forest areas. - R. B.

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Country Lane - Pheasant

There is magic in an early spring evening.  The new grass of the year is emerald bright, but the leaves have yet to come into leaf.  The twigs are taking on subtle warmth of color, and here and there first blossoms have appeared. This is ideal country for the ring-necked pheasant. - R. B.

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Courting Pair - Whistling Swans

The big, white birds are strong and fierce.  They have flown thousands of miles from wintering grounds to the arctic to begin their nesting and are now performing their courtship ritual. - R. B.

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Courtship Display - Wild Turkey

The American wild turkey, to me, symbolizes the wild American which greeted the pilgrims when they arrived.  The birds, like the land and the Indians, were strong, bold and flamboyant, yet vulnerable. - R. B.

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Coyote Head Study