Wolf and the Sea

Look forward to much more of this style, as I'm going to be doing at least 14 of them.

Not many people realise this, but I have First Nations heritage in my family, and I've always had a connection with Pacific Northwester First Nations art (Commonly known as Haida art).

Anyways, the reason I'm doing these pieces is that I'm getting married later this year, and my fiance and I decided that rather than have table numbers, that I would do illustrations like this one for each table instead, of the different Haida totems.

For those interested, here is the Haida legend of the Orca:

Once a man found two wolf pups on the beach, he took them to his home and raised them.

When the pups had grown, they would swim out in to the ocean, kill a whale, and bring it to shore for the man to eat.

Each day they did this, soon there was too much meat to eat and it began to spoil.

When the Great Above Person saw this waste he made a fog and the wolves could not find whales to kill nor find they way back to shore.

They had to remain at sea, those wolves became sea wolves (Orca).