"A Stroke Of Genius..."

Bev Doolittle. A lot of you may already be familiar with her style of painting pictures within pictures...some embedded images are readily visible, and others you have to just sit and look at for them to come to life and arise from the shadows.

I realize the holidays are right around the corner and I could have put it on my wish list, but I couldn't help buying a 2008 Bev Doolittle calendar while passing through a store last Saturday (darn those point-of-purchase displays!) Got me to thinkin' I might share some of her work here in case you've never seen it...

No doubt she is famous for her snow scenes, especially involving Paints and Pintos...there are some especially neat scenes of them running through a thick snow covered birch forest with other hidden animals, but I couldn't find good enough images of them on-line.

For obvious flute-related reasons, I am the proud owner of one discontinued Doolittle print entitled "Music in the Wind", seen below:

Remember to click on pics to enlarge...most of these will show a lot more detail, like the starlit sky below, as well as myriad animals like a moose, badger, bear, bobcat, Bighorn ram, and more in the rocks and vegetation details:

How many times have you walked in the woods and thought someone was watching you? Maybe they WERE, certainly if Bev Doolittle had anything to do with it:

Couldn't bear not to show you this one...make sure you 'paws' and look for the grizzly details. In her prints, there is always something 'bruin'...

Interesting self-portrait, the pictures within the pictures within the picture...

If nothing else, next time you're in the bookstore, look for her books or calendars and enjoy the much better quality images. Great way to pass time on a rainy day...oh, I forgot, we don't have those...