Staff Pick Sea Wolves - Original Painting With Warranty [zXcq2iUZ]

Artist: Nate Udd

Acrylic on Panel

36" x 48"

Note from the Artist:  Coastal Wolves ("Sea Wolves") are an interesting subspecies of gray wolves that prowl the British Columbian and Southeast Alaskan coasts, utilizing food sources from the ocean and its tides. Both the wolves and the orcas benefit from salmon runs up and down the coast, in this case, Chinook (King) Salmon. Normally, in the ocean phase of their life, salmon are silver, only turning red to spawn before they die in the same freshwater they were born in. I checked with my father-in-law who was in the Yellowstone Fisheries department for decades, and he told me that if the spawning grounds aren't very far inland, it's possible for them to change colors while still in the ocean. It was an important detail I wanted to get right, and one where artistic freedom and scientific accuracy meet. It's such a unique and complex planet we live on where the Sea Wolves and the Wolves of the Sea (Orcas) can share the same coasts.

189 individual animals, including starfish, sea urchins, and sea anemones, are depicted in this large painting.

Read Nate Udd's bio here