Now that the Custer Trail Horse painting is finished, I am able to get started on another elk bull painting. This one, like the first elk painting, was also photographed at Yellowstone National Park. He was out in the open, surrounded by his cows and bugleing to other bulls to stay away from his harem. Thanks to the teleconverter and zoon lens, I was able to get a fairly close shot of him.
Today I prepped the canvas and then sketched the image. Tomorrow I plan on painting the hillside in the background, which should be fairly simply. It's mainly rock, dirt and some tuffs of grass here and there.