My favorite wildlife artist, adept with pencil, charcoal, oils, and water color, was a gorgeous work of art named Carol Anne Howell. Gave most of her work away, but I still have a few of her oils and at least one of her pencil drawings.
I knew Gary Swanson and photographed one of his oil paintings while it was still wet, for a full-page Weaver ad that was slated for publication just at the time when Olin was selling Weaver. It never ran, of course.
I panicked when it seemed that I'd smeared his painting. To my vast relief, it turned-out to be an unfinished thorn in the tree that the leopard was lying in. Whew!
