I recently finished this painting of an otter slide at the local marsh. I call it, “Slip Slidin’ Away.” It feels good to have this one done just as winter slides away into spring.

The photograph I worked from was take a couple years ago. It was thrilling this winter to go for a walk after a fresh snowfall and find two otter slides along the trail. I traced them all them all the way back where they emerged near a creek and then slipped and slid up the trail bank, along the trail, down a gully and up over a hill before they descended down the hill towards to marsh. The distance I tracked them was about a kilometre!

I can just imagine how much fun the pair was having galloping and sliding along from one part of their territory to another. I wish I’d seen them.

Here are just a few of the many images I took of this year’s otter slides.