Started and Completed: 2023, Coconut Creek, FL

This is a snail named Gilbert who lived in the Smoky Mountains. I found him stuck to a large rock near the campground my family was staying at, and he seemed dehydrated so I gave him some water and placed him closer to the stream. In 2019 I did a painting of this same snail for a class I took in high school. That class was my first introduction to this style of painting and it has stuck with me ever since. Gilbert was my first project in that class, and so I wanted to revisit the subject where it all started 4 years ago.