Take Time to Smell the Flowers
by Darren Fisher
Title
Take Time to Smell the Flowers
Artist
Darren Fisher
Medium
Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art
Description
A cute little Squirrel holding and sniffing a Spring Tulip. This is a composite of the squirrel and a tulip image of mine. I then used a texture and effects to give the image the look of a painting.
Squirrels are generally small animals, ranging in size from the African pygmy squirrel at 7�10 cm (2.8�3.9 in) in length and just 10 g (0.35 oz) in weight, to the Alpine marmot, which is 53�73 cm (21�29 in) long and weighs from 5 to 8 kg (11 to 18 lb). Squirrels typically have slender bodies with bushy tails and large eyes. In general, their fur is soft and silky, although much thicker in some species than others. The color of squirrels is highly variable between�and often even within�species.
In general, the hind limbs are longer than the fore limbs, and they have four or five toes on each paw. Their paws include an often poorly developed thumb, and have soft pads on the undersides.] Unlike most mammals, Tree squirrels can descend a tree head-first. They do so by rotating their ankles 180 degrees so the hind paws are backward-pointing and can grip the tree bark.
Squirrels live in almost every habitat from tropical rainforest to semiarid desert, avoiding only the high polar regions and the driest of deserts. They are predominantly herbivorous, subsisting on seeds and nuts, but many will eat insects and even small vertebrates.
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April 19th, 2016
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Comments (18)
Michael Durst
Beautiful creation. The baby squirrel and the tulip go so well together to create that internal Awww from the viewer.
Randy Rosenberger
I am very happy that you provided this fine piece of art to share with your fellow artists and all potential customers out there. This is a very worthy piece of beauty and is deserving of being Featured in the Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group. LIKED & FAVED Randy B. Rosenberger WFS group administrator