Painting Wolf Howling

Restrained rather than dramatic

Three wolves in a drift of pale mist, one with its head thrown back mid howl and the other two standing quiet beside it, rendered soberly, without the heavy contrast and saturated night sky that usually accompanies the subject.

That restraint is the reason to choose this one. The howling pose carries enough drama on its own; a blazing moon behind it would tip the image into poster territory. Here it stays as a study of animals doing something.

What a howl actually is

Not mournful, and not aimed at anything overhead. A howl carries up to around ten kilometres across open country, which is how a family stays in contact across a territory that can run to hundreds of square kilometres.

It is the most efficient long-distance communication available to an animal without a telephone, and packs deliberately avoid matching pitch so a group of six sounds like considerably more.

Living with it

A sober treatment ages better than a dramatic one. This is a piece that stays interesting rather than becoming loud.

Sizes and framing

• Small, Medium and Large
• With Frame: ready to hang
• Without Frame: simple canvas, needs stretching

Our article on why wolves howl has the rest. See the painting size chart and wolf painting.

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