Mother and Baby Humpback Acrylic Print

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Mother humpback is protecting her baby. As all moms know, giving birth and those first months in a newborn’s life is a profoundly intense and special time. Like most baby animals, humpbacks learn how to feed from their mothers who pass on their lessons on feeding to their calves. Humpback whale mothers teach their calves to return to the same summer feeding grounds in Alaska.This culture of passing down site preference to offspring is crucial in that it allows the young whales to become familiar with certain places in the vast ocean where they can count on food and refuge.

My acrylic 8x10 painting is a tribute to this wonderful mother and baby bond. Thank you for taking the time to visit my painting.

"Copyright 2020, Darice Machel McGuire, all rights reserved"

Darice Machel McGuire lived on the beautiful Island of Maui from 2012 until the Lahaina fire on August 8th, 2023, destroyed her art studio. She and her husband have relocated to Grass Valley, California. They purchased a commercial building to reestablish their art studios. McGuire's Hawaii and California landscape oil and acrylic paintings are gracing the homes and offices of collectors nationally and internationally. McGuire's choice of subject matter comes from her love of nature and all that surrounds her on a daily basis. She paints in large and small formats. Three of the five galleries that represented her work were destroyed by the Lahaina fire. The two remaining galleries are Karen Lei's Gallery in Kahakuloa and Karen Lei's...