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Walton Ford, Nila, 1999-2000, watercolor, gouache, ink, and pencil on paper, 144” x 216”, Photo by La Petite Claudine (Flickr) under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

Walton Ford’s Wild Kingdom

Walton Ford’s watercolors are magnificent.  The contemporary artist paints the natural world on an enormous scale.  This watercolor of an elephant, when all twenty-two panels are placed together, is life-size.  The painting is meticulous.  The detail is exacting.  It is … Continue reading