And another one - I've done a piece on a very similar frog in relief before (The Slightest Disturbance), and now here's a painting from a different angle of a marsh frog, Rana ridibunda and/or Pelophylax ridibundus, from the Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo. This piece is acrylic on gessobord, 5x7", and is titled Comfort Zone.
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An Evening Visitor
It's been pretty rainy lately, so the frogs and toads are a bit more visible! I watched a frog quickly hop into a storage shed at USM recently, but this little common toad was slightly more obliging in posing for a portrait when he visited my porch one evening.
Bellwether: Frogs Not Doing So Hot
in General Interest, News
From The New York Times:
Since at least the 1970s, frog populations have been in decline. A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that at least 3.1 percent of frog species have gone extinct, and another 6.9 percent may disappear within the next century.