Realistic Wildlife Paintings With Imaginative Abstract Backgrounds

I walk daily through the nature trails surrounding my Vancouver Island home. This week alone I have seen Hawks hunting, a gaggle of Canada Geese, Pheasants and Quail, not to mention frogs and snakes.  It is an endless changing seasonal view and cast of characters. When we travel to Alberta and across Canada on road trips we have the opportunity to larger beasts such as elk, bighorn sheep, moose and even polar bear. Although I have never seen a moose or polar bear in the wild, they are never far from my imagination and have found their way into several paintings over the years. Creating realistic wildlife paintings of my Canadian experiences, set against abstract backgrounds of wonder and imagination.

From elk to polar bears, I have found myself creating realistic imagery of these animals against abstract backgrounds of shape form and colour. Sometimes representing the northern lights or even the reflection of light through rainy mist or ice crystals, these paintings offer fanciful worlds of wonder and a spectrum of colours.

Here are a few realistic wildlife paintings with abstract backgrounds;

 

 

The Other Kind of Wildlife Paintings, Humans in the Wilderness

While these paintings feature humans and not polar bears, they do fit into the same genre of realistic focal points of human form, set against fanciful and imaginative backgrounds, something I continue to explore in my recent paintings about Canada.