by Denver Bryan | Jan 30, 2023
Africa, the Dark Continent. Ask anyone what comes to mind when they think of Africa, and they will say its wild animals. And invariably its dangerous game. As a wildlife biologist turned wildlife photographer, megafauna and man-eaters are what first drew me to visit...
by Todd Wilkinson | Jan 27, 2023
“If I have any legacy, I want it to be that of an artist who was passionately in love with Africa.” Ross Parker knows the color of truth in African wildlife art. As a native Zimbabwean raised in the dust of ruby red sunsets, he says no day in the bush is more...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jan 26, 2023
Sporting Classics will be in attendance at the 2023 Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE) this coming February – here’s what you need to get started! Whether you are looking for SEWE’s Brochure, FAQ’s, Raffles, Tickets or Hotels, you can begin — or continue — to...
by David Cabela | Jan 13, 2023
“My work has evolved a great deal in recent years, particularly in the way I apply paint to canvas. I hope that I’ll still be growing at the same rate 10 years from now.” These words by John Banovich appeared in an article by Editor Chuck Wechsler in the March/April,...
by Todd Wilkinson | Jan 12, 2023
There is nothing meek or ambiguous about a charging elephant, especially when the tusker in question appears to be lunging off a canvas from South African painter James Stroud. Stroud’s vivid wildlife portraits are so different from the flat surfaces of most sporting...
by Tom Davis | Jan 2, 2023
“…I could do it if I practiced enough.” It’s not uncommon, upon meeting Julie Jeppsen for the first time, to find yourself doing a double take just a few minutes later. Let’s say you’re at the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition in Charleston, South Carolina, one of the...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jan 1, 2023
This is YOUR chance to own what very few in the world do! SPONSORED CONTENT: Furrow Auction Company is conducting an online-only auction for the Estate of Safari Club International lifetime member’s collection of Taxidermy from around the world and a huge assortment...
by John Ross | Dec 15, 2022
A painter he is, and that’s what he always wanted to be… His house is what realtors, in Salisbury, Maryland, call a two-story “Colonial.” It sits near the back of a tasteful subdivision — meaning one where developers have left standing the native loblolly pine, oak...
by Todd Wilkinson | Dec 2, 2022
A touchstone of Donaldson’s work is his ability to translate the feeling one gets in encountering tremendous volumes of open space. Kim Donaldson could do nothing to prevent his eyelids from closing. His mind was drifting in and out of fitful sleep and his body,...
by John Ross | Nov 25, 2022
Don’t think of Linda as some sort of five-foot-four female Indiana Jones who’s hellbent on adventure. Rather, she’s a rare spirit who is both good and lucky, an unbearable combination for a wildlife artist. The leopard had appeared fairly tame. Reared on a South...
