Gallery: Wildlife artist Chuck Ripper

Nationally known wildlife artist Chuck Ripper, of Huntington.

Artist Chuck Ripper of Huntington gives painting demonstrations using gouache water color paint during family day at the Huntington Museum of Art.

Lori Wolfe/The Herald-Dispatch Local artist Chuck Ripper talks with shoppers as they look over his original works displayed at the 28th Annual Lions Club Arts and Crafts Show Saturday, Dec. 3, 2005, at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena in Huntington.

A black bear pauses in shafts of light coming through the fall foliage in this Chuck Ripper painting.

Photo courtesy L.L. Bean The cover of L.L. Bean's 2006 Spring Hunting catalog was painted by Huntington artist Chuck Ripper.

Chuck Ripper Wood Bison

Dave Lavender/The Herald-Dispatch Renowned Huntington-based wildlife artist and stamp illustrator Chuck Ripper was commissioned to illustrate nine pictures of the flora and fauna that can be seen along the Huntington Museum of Art's new sensory trail and sensory butterfly garden.

The cordial and good-humored wildlife artist Chuck Ripper talks about his life painting wildlife in his studio filled with his paintings he has finished through-out the years.

Dave Lavender/The Herald-Dispatch Renowned Huntington-based wildlife artist and stamp illustrator Chuck Ripper was commissioned to illustrate nine pictures of the flora and fauna that can be seen along the Huntington Museum of Art's new sensory trail and sensory butterfly garden.

Huntington wildlife artist Chuck Ripper brings plants and animals to life on his canvas that have graced the covers of numerous magazines and hundreds of stamps.

Dave Lavender/The Herald-Dispatch Renowned Huntington-based wildlife artist and stamp illustrator Chuck Ripper was commissioned to illustrate nine pictures of the flora and fauna that can be seen along the Huntington Museum of Art's new sensory trail and sensory butterfly garden.

A screech owl sits passively amidst the trees in this Chuck Ripper painting. Birds are Ripper's favorite subject to paint.

Dave Lavender/The Herald-Dispatch Renowned Huntington-based wildlife artist and stamp illustrator Chuck Ripper was commissioned to illustrate nine pictures of the flora and fauna that can be seen along the Huntington Museum of Art's new sensory trail and sensory butterfly garden.

Chuck Ripper painted himself fishing for trout in the Shavers Fork of the Cheat River

Dave Lavender/The Herald-Dispatch Renowned Huntington-based wildlife artist and stamp illustrator Chuck Ripper was commissioned to illustrate nine pictures of the flora and fauna that can be seen along the Huntington Museum of Art's new sensory trail and sensory butterfly garden.

Dave Lavender/The Herald-Dispatch Renowned Huntington-based wildlife artist and stamp illustrator Chuck Ripper was commissioned to illustrate nine pictures of the flora and fauna that can be seen along the Huntington Museum of Art's new sensory trail and sensory butterfly garden.

The Fall Hunting catalog marks the 14th L. L. Bean cover for Westmoreland-based artist Chuck Ripper. Ripper painted many of the classic and most-beloved covers in the 1970s for L.L. Bean.

The 2010 West Virginia Wildlife Calendar features paintings by Huntington resident Chuck Ripper and his daughters Janet Ripper Chambers and Elisabeth Kelly.

Bart Andrews of Huntington displays the Chuck Ripper print on the window of his motorhome.

Trout swim in a clean stream in the Chuck Ripper painting.