“Orca Family In Mist” was painted on canvas in acrylics and is 36 by 48 inches in size. An abstract art work splashed and brushed in muted blues and greens before the killer whales and misty ocean landscape found their way into the painting.

This canvas wall painting started as abstract art created with large blue and green brush strokes in an action painting technique. As a Vancouver Island abstract artist I often focus on large movements of paint on a canvas in a quick expression.

A mother killer whale swims off away from viewers cutting smoothly through BC waters with her calf. Only the front of the orca is painted to realistic completion in this acrylic seascape. Her back blends into layers of blue and green a abstract paint splatters.

This BC whale painting shows a baby orca calf lifts his head up to his mother while swimming and looks out at his ocean world with a child's eyes. A Killer whale calf has a 17 month gestation period and only one calf is born, meaning a mother only calves every 5 years. Orca pods are matriarchal.

Large blue gestural brushwork and spontaneously applied acrylic paint were expressed onto this abstract art canvas to suggest the movement of water in the ocean foreground. I think the abstract painting is the most important part of artworks like this and sets up the whole piece.

A fully grown adult male orca with a towering 6 foot dorsal fin bursts out of Pacific waters in the right hand foreground of this BC ocean wildlife wall art. I wanted the viewer to feel this killer whale come alive with action from a direction that just misses us as the whale swims by and checks viewers out.

A killer whale is caught in action emerging in paint out of an abstract visual art piece. As a Vancouver Island wildlife artist I love painting animals close to home in my Victoria, BC studio.

This acrylic canvas wildlife seascape of a pair of killer whales is on display at its home with a lovely couple in Saanich, British Columbia that bought the painting. I love finding the right people to give my artwork a good home.