"Tatanka" Print

Original acrylic painting with texture (mixed media) on canvas, gallery wrap with painting around edges. This painting features a green background with the bison featuring grays, browns, and blacks with texture. Wired & ready to hang. 10% of art sales will be donated towards helping animals and Native Americans. When in the process of deciding what piece to create next, sometimes I have little "signs" show up for me, whether it be a repeated images or references to a specific animal or subject matter, and sometimes as one of three levels of either an idea, an image, or as far as a vision. This piece came into creation as I started receiving such signs, giving me a driving force strong enough to put aside a different piece I was working on to create this one, as often happens when it's important for me to complete a specific piece. I created this acrylic painting with texture to enhance the feeling of being up close to the magnificent creature, using texture for the fur and coating the eyes, and it is called "Tatanka" which is the Native American tribe Lakota's word for Bison and means "Big Beast." The Bison, also commonly known as a Buffalo, is a symbol of gentleness and moderation as well as abundance and manifestation and is considered as a very special and sacred spirit in Native American culture.