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5/1/2025 12:05:27 PM

Florida Panther Endangered

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We enjoyed trips to Florida while my son lived there. We drove out to Key West and visited galleries and museums in Naples and St. Petersburg. Visiting nature preserves, zoos, and botanical gardens provides rich resource material and inspiration for new paintings. Conservation and preservation of natural lands and endangered species is a growing passion.

I admit this challenging painting demanded much planning and reworking. I combined several resources to arrive at this composition. Imagine being in the wild Florida jungle and discovering an endangered Florida panther sunning on fallen logs in the Everglades.

Recently, I learned about a bridge built over land where numerous wildlife species cross under the highway and avoid automobile traffic. This is an example of man engineering a way to protect and coexist with wildlife.
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