Woodland Encounter by Bev Doolittle

Woodland Encounter, painted well along in Bev's career (1981), is a deliberate study in camouflage by misdirection, which, the artist explains, "Grew out of my effort to break all the normal 'rules' of composition.

"The bright-colored fox, dead center, distracts the eye from whatever is going on in the busy snowscape surrounding him. And the richness of design—a wonderful, natural part of the trees themselves—also gave me the opportunity to play games with the traditionally accepted uses of space that govern a well conceived piece of art . . . ." — Bev Doolittle