Celebrate Wolf Awareness Week 2009!
October 11-17
Wolf Awareness Week is a time to recognize the importance of wolves as part of our natural systems. Each year, the third week of October is proclaimed Wolf Awareness Week across the Nation. Since 1990, TWA has produced educational wolf posters featuring original artwork. For Wolf Awareness Week 2009 Timber Wolf Alliance is producing one poster which will be distributed to schools, libraries, nature centers and interested citizens. Over thirty federal, state and tribal agencies and non-profit organizations from around the country from Alaska to Florida sponsor these materials and will distribute them to places and people, blanketing their own communities with information about wolves.
This year, Timber Wolf Alliance highlights the artwork of Tim Donovan with his piece “Alpha”
Wildlife and the outdoors have always been Tim's love and creating these images on canvas is his passion. Tim was trained in oil paints. But his tight style has lead him to work primarily in egg tempera. By occasionally combining the two mediums he gets a very unique luminosity to his paintings and softness to the fur. Over the last several years his attention has been focused on using his art to support organizations for the preservation of wildlife and their habitat. In 1999 Tim was awarded the coveted Conservation Service Award, by Ducks Unlimited for his outstanding contributions for the preservation of North American Waterfowl. In 2003 he completed the illustration of the book, "Beyond Little Red Riding Hood" for the Timber Wolf Alliance. In 2006 Tim started working with Jack Hanna to help the preservation of both the polar bear and the mountain gorillas, which he continues to support today through art. For more information about Tim Donovan’s work go to www.donovanart.com.
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