The Bugle at First Light: Painting the Bull Elk
By Boone Mercer
Why the September elk bugle stays with you all year, and what it takes for a painter to put that sound on canvas.
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Stories from the country the paintings come from.
Essays on the wild, the water, and the ones who wait at the door, written for the people who know those hours firsthand.
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Wings Over Open Water: Marsh Mornings and the Goldeneye
By Boone Mercer
Marsh mornings, whistling wings, and the goldeneye: a writer's field notes on the hour before light and how a painter holds it.
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Big Country, Still Light: Mule Deer in the Open West
By Boone Mercer
Glassing the open West before first light, the patience mule deer country demands, and the moment a heavy buck materializes out of empty grass.
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Companions: From the Hearth to BLM Country
By Maren Hollis
The bond with a good companion is the same by the stove or forty miles from pavement. On honoring that bond in a hand-painted portrait.
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Mist and Color on the Flyway: The Drake Wood Duck
By Boone Mercer
Pacific Flyway mornings, mist over the refuge, and the almost surreal colors of a wood duck drake when the light finally finds him.
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The Speed of the Prairie: Pronghorn and What Endures
By Boone Mercer
The fastest land mammal in North America, built for predators that no longer exist, and what a painter holds when he paints that weathered focus.
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