Paintings of Wildlife & Nature by Rebecca Latham
Paintings by international wildlife artist Rebecca Latham. Featuring North American animals, birds, & nature in watercolor painted in miniature.
Wildflower Meadow – Whitetail Fawn, 5″ x 7″, watercolor on board, ©Rebecca Latham This is a recently finished painting. It has very soft lighting, and because of this, subtle tones that were very fun to work with. I especially liked the overall richness of the piece. It was finished off […] Read more »
A little bit larger than I often work… this piece is about 11in x 14in (sepia watercolor on board at this point, work in progress). This is a rather involved painting with all of the detail in the animals themselves as well as an ocean of grass surrounding them. ..so […] Read more »
This is a recently painted little fawn portrait. When working on the piece, I focused on rendering detail in the fur, yet retaining a softness throughout the piece. I also wanted to portray her cautious look at the viewer as she carefully stepped through the grass. Fawn Portrait, 7″x5″, watercolor on […] Read more »
During one of our trips to an exhibition, we came across these beautiful horses…I immediately knew they would be a painting. One of the delights in this piece was to be able to use such bold golden tones contrasted with the grass and distant cools in the vegetation behind them. […] Read more »
For pleasure or work, I thoroughly enjoy travelling to lofty places, for both the epic views & vistas as well as the animals that reside there. This is a painting that came from one such adventure. A mountain goat enjoying his spot along a ledge in mountainous terrain. He allowed me to […] Read more »
I am honored that my painting, “The Meadow”, has been awarded the “Best of Fauna” Purchase Award by the Alabama Wildlife Federation for their ‘Alabama Flora and Fauna Art Show’ to be held April 10-16,2010 Only 54 art entries were juried into the exhibition that will be on exhibit at […] Read more »
I just completed this new Whitetail buck miniature painting, pictured here in both sepia and the finished stages. The watercolor painting is 5×7. It was awesome seeing this buck at close range. It seemed that no matter how he stood in front of me, that he was holding a majestic […] Read more »
This is another work in progress… It is about 5×7, watercolor, featuring a little whitetail fawn. This little one just made me smile. :D (both when I visited her and while painting her portrait) I hope to capture her softness and personality in the finished piece. I have another painting […] Read more »
This is a larger painting that I was working on a little earlier this week. It’s a 20" x 30" watercolor of a bull elk, titled "Passage". This piece developed pretty rapidly. I painted a study for this larger painting as a miniature 4" x 6". The miniature study can […] Read more »
I just received notice that the three paintings that I sent to the "16th International Miniature Art Show" at the Seaside Art Gallery in Nags Head, North Carolina were juried into the exhibition. The Outer Banks gallery was founded in 1961 (the barrier islands of North Carolina). A reception for […] Read more »