Animal oil paintings by Jon Houglum of Houglum Fine Art, Franklin, NC, Western North Carolina.

Original oil paintings of wildlife and pets hand painted by professional artist Jon Houglum speaks to the viewer both emotionally and visually. Painting in the style of the old masters he displays a masterful and accurate rendering of any subject.

Jon’s paintings rendered from photographs of black bears in the North Carolina Mountains by North Carolina residents and tourists are a delight to animal lovers everywhere. The cow pastures, goat pastures and chicken pens seen throughout the mountains of Western North Carolina are often the subject of Jon’s paintings.

Jon specializes in painting black bears into North Carolina scenes.

Contact Jon to have a painting done from a photograph or on location of your favorite subject matter.