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Yellowstone Moran book is really exciting for me to create. My parents are wildlife photographers and I grew up spending long hours sitting still in wildlife blinds, waiting for animals to appear. It was often cold, Bum-numbing, and with mosquitoes so thick that he could drive a person mad. We had to sit quietly while we watched. Do not have a camera myself, I often brought a sketchbook and wrote and drew the animals we saw.

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Growing up, I dreamed of being an explorer artist like Thomas Moran, explore the wilderness and paint. Eventually I became a painter of landscapes, sporting a French easel and a backpack full of paintings that I have traveled to places to paint. The experience made me respect what Moran had planned to do with his art even more to preserve the natural beauty of the land in the painting and convince others it must be protected.I knew I wanted to write its history, how it has played a vital role in creating our first national park.

Creating art for this book was a challenge. How to capture gushing geysers, vast landscapes, and men and horses who climbs the fallen timber. I had never painted horses before this book. But I found a breeder kind enough to take me out riding so that we can explore the earth Moran had traveled. Both the breeder and my husband, Dave posed as models in the book.

My favorite part of creating illustrations for the book was to capture the natural beauty of the earth. I pulled form the experience I had as a landscape painter. Although I now use instead of oils, watercolors, the principles are the same, and it was a joy to withdraw to the new bridge on the ground and painting on location throughout the Yellowstone....

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