Robie Benve Art

Urban Wildlife Acrylic on Canvas 5"x7" SOLD I sold this piece to a wonderful 7-year-old girl, my youngest and wonderful fan, also a squirrel lover. She went home and did her own interpretation of it, and her mom sent me a picture, which I'm not publishing for privacy reasons. In the photo she's holding my painting next to her artwork. The squirrel she painted is really great, much bigger, same posture, same colors, and really proportioned. I am so impressed and moved! It really warmed my heart. :)

--> “Nutty Squirrel” 5" x 7" (12.7 cm x 17.8 cm)  Acrylic on canvas panel --> On first trip to the USA, I went for walks in Frederick, MD and at the end of each day I was proud to report in detail to my boyfriend how many squirrels, groundhogs, blue jays, cardinals, etc. I saw. I was in awe looking at the wildlife on the city streets. You just don’t see these kind of urban wildlife in Italy. That was in 1997. Now I'm married to that boyfriend, we live in Columbus, Ohio and have squirrels and chipmunks running like crazy in our yard, (I even saw a couple of opossums the other day) and these nutty squirrels eat all the bird food and even broke a couple of feeders fighting over it. Nevertheless, they are cute, and the point of having a feeder is to get wild animals coming to it, so I’m complaining, but not too much.:) I just wished they stopped digging holes everywhere in the yard! Jokingly we say we have squirrels with Alzheimer...