11" x 14" print - Garter Snake Among the Bramble small farms Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias)

Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias) hunt among the cattails (Typha latifolia) for Harvest Mice (Reithrodontomys megalotis)

this one being especially green

Original is rendered in gouache and colored pencil on Duralene

This work focuses on the ecological relationships in the White Mountains of California

11" x 14" print - Garter Snake Among the Bramble small farms Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias)San Francisco Garter Snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia) and California Red legged Frogs(Rana draytonii) are two endangered species that call the Bay Area home. Both tied to freshwater, they are most impacted by the decline of suitable habitat in a heavily developed region. Still, they manage to hold on in pockets of habitat strewn across a landscape populated with more familiar species like Poison Oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum), California