Windy Point Coyote

by Chance Kafka

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$205

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20.000 x 16.000 x 0.500 inches

Title

Windy Point Coyote

Artist

Chance Kafka

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Canvas

Description

A coyote stands atop a rock at Windy Point Vista high in the Santa Catalina Mountains above Tucson, Arizona.

I was compelled to paint a portrait of a coyote in this scene for quite some time, but never got quite around to it. The inspiration for it came many months ago when I was taking pictures at Windy Point late one weekend night, and heard a coyote or too howling on the rocks off in the distance. Some might have been unsettled at the sound but it didn't really bother me. I have never seen or heard them during the day but have imagined how cool it would be to get a photograph of one as it glances right at the camera, standing atop a rock with this incredible backdrop. I never seem to have much luck with wildlife photography, though, and what I imagined has never happened so I decided to paint it instead. This is an impressionistic painting, depicting not only a very common canine found among the many types of wildlife in the Southwest, but also so much that makes Tucson, Tucson.

This inspirational overlook along the Catalina Highway on its ascent of Mount Lemmon offers a view of many distinct features of the region surrounding Tucson, many of which I have included. On the left, near the center, rises Thimble Peak at the top of Sabino Canyon, with "A Mountain" (also known as Sentinel Peak) about 20 miles away. The block A atop the peak commemorates the University of Arizona logo, and rises just to the southwest of downtown. Far off in the distance just below the clouds rises Baboquivari Peak, almost to the Mexico Border. On the upper right Houghton Road can even be faintly seen, one of the longest roads in the region stretching from the Catalina Foothills to Corona de Tucson and Sahuarita. And on the lower right, the Catalina Highway below snakes through the Molino Basin on the way back to Tucson.

Much of the Santa Catalina Mountains are Coronado National Forest land and are really fun to explore.

As always, I also included a couple of birds, flying high above the vista in the corners of the painting.

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June 1st, 2019

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