Am now beginning to work on the 2008 "Buffalo Roam" art project in support of the community of West Yellowstone, Montana.

In 2006, West Yellowstone enlisted the talents of 25 artists from Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Minnesota to paint 25 near life-size cow buffalo models. These models were artistically embellished with Native American, landscape and wildlife paintings and unveiled to the public in June 2007. During the unveiling, 15 of the participating artists also collectively painted a 26th buffalo, each developing a piece to create a fabulous collage painting. My first "Buffalo Roam" model project is pictured here:

http://www.runningbearartwork.com/2007_painted_buffalo.html

All of the 25 artwork creations are depicted on the West Yellowstone website here:

http://www.wyed.org/artists.htm

This year, ten selected artists are preparing ten smaller buffalo "calf" models to join the West Yellowstone herd in June 2008. You can see my progress to date on my model by seeing my gallery page here:

http://www.runningbearartwork.com/2008_buffaloroam.html

The "Buffalo Roam" herd will be joined by the new calf creations when publicly unveiled on 14 June 2008. There will also be an expanded Northwest Regional Art Show 13-15 June hosted by the community and held in the historic Union Pacific Dining Hall in West Yellowstone.

This is an exciting project and one I feel priveleged to participate in. West Yellowstone and Yellowstone Park receive millions of visitors each year, and I am pleased and honored that so many people can see and enjoy these fabulous creations.

I've just completed a new original work entitled "Faerie Magick". You can see the painting on the 2008 Gallery under "Surreal Gallery" here: http://www.runningbearartwork.com/2008_surreal.html. The painting is acrylic on stretched canvas, a fairly large piece at 36" x 36". The original will be placed on display at the DCAU Gallery in Glendive soon, once framed.  Prints will be also be available in various sizes. If interested in a print, please let me know.

I just completed a painting on a 30" fiberglass walleye (fish) model. It can be seen on my Galleries pages under my 2008 Western Gallery page ( http://www.runningbearartwork.com/2008_western.html) The model is a scale replica of a walleye, the largest of the Perch family, and was developed for the 2008 Walleyes Unlimited Montana State convention and dinner, scheduled for January 26th. This year the convention and dinner will be held in Glendive, and the model will be auctioned off as a fundraiser item. I decided to paint a wildlife and landscape theme that reflected Montana.... with badlands and a buffalo to one end and a timber wolf and high mountain lake to the other. This captures some of the landscape and wildlife unique to Montana. Your comments are always welcome.

Welcome to Running Bear Creative Artwork. This site features my work, including western, wildlife and surrealistic original artwork, limited edition prints, web design and web graphics. You can visit the site at the following link: http://www.runningbearartwork.com/index.html. My Galleries of fine art are arranged by year and feature original paintings, drawings, wood carvings and metal art sculptures.  I'd enjoy hearing your comments and any ideas you might have for future work.