"Silent Witness" by Kristin Jurist Haakenson

Silent Witness
acrylic on canvas
24" x 12"
$525 + $30 shipping (contact)

This was my first attempt at painting a cougar.  It's amazing how much my own housecats resemble this impressive animal.  Cougars are the largest cats that can purr (to the best of my knowledge...scientists are still debating, apparently).

For my Seattle show in December, we hung this painting right next to Little Bighorns...it was a bit eerie but had a pretty interesting visual effect.

He crouched low and long on the road,
Low and long and golden against
The leaves, watching pensively,
A damp sphinx of the woods. 
-Keith Holyoak, from "The Cougar"

Kristin Jurist Haakenson

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Cougar Wildlife Oil Painting "Faces of Nature Series" by Washington Artist Mary Jo Zorad

Majestic, elegant and stealthy,
from the golden peaks I observe
my quarry beneath the pine tops
unaware of my vigilance and hunger.

K Schilling 

On one occasion was I graced to see a wild cougar sitting in the driveway of my neighbors home when I lived in CA.  It was a young cougar just sitting on the asphalt.  I like to believe it was enjoying the early morning, but I suspect it was looking for breakfast.

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