We saw plenty of bison during our Yellowstone adventure, and this one was by him/herself. I always felt that the loners were a meal for the wolves. At one point, while in Hayden Valley, we witnessed several packs of wolves dining on a bison that had been badly injured in a fight. We were so fortunate to see wolves in the wild. So, I was compelled to paint a bison. The Foothills Wildlife Show is accepting entries, so I thought I'd enter this one.
Beautiful painting Karen, the colors of the bison are just beautiful; really takes me back twenty years to when I visited that part of the world. It does look like you were kind of close...!