Amongst the Mangroves

Just finished this painting based on a very old thumbnail. Like so many of my paintings, I have no idea what's going on here - the best I can figure it is the dragonflies are warning the squirrel about something up ahead in his path, but what, I don't know. For some reason, instruments as boats just seems like a cool idea to me...

While I think the general color scheme over all is working pretty well, I'm a bit bothered by the isolated, heavy orange of the squirrel and boat on the left side of the picture. The dragonflies just don't balance him out as much as I'd hoped...

10x14" Acrylic on watercolor paper

Prints are here: [link]