By now, you've become familiar with Wildlife Art Journal's virtual cover imagery.  They're meant to provoke and arouse, make you do a double take, respond by saying this is not the kind of "wildlife art" that made the covers of magazines in your grandfather's barber shop.

From Robert Bateman to David Shepherd, underwater photographer Wayne Levin, Carel Pieter Brest van Kempen, London's Graffit Kings, and Ron Kingswood, we've received overhwelmingly positive responses to the choice of pieces proclaiming our next issue.

We're certain the new one will be no exception. Leonard Koscianski's work is dangerous and exciting.  He is a quintessential 21st century artist who has the courage to make a statement.  Rather than being wild or cute and benign, some of his animals are ferocious, rapid and feral.  He courts the edge of urban grit with atomic sunsets and beauty that can be a blend of gorgeous aesthetic utopia sprinkled with the surreal flavor of David Lynch film noir.

Like Brest van Kempen (and Walton Ford and Alexis Rockman and others), he's put a contemporary face on his animal portrayals.

Writer Janice F. Booth has penned a wonderfully probing profile of Koscianski, whose work is included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection. Between Koscianski's ouevre and Booth's wordsmithery, this is precisely the kind of story you won't find anywhere else.  We'll say it again:  We believe that artists who explore wildlife as subject matter are part of an exciting new movement of expression central to the social-cultural-environmental dialogue in this century.

We're planning to roll out our next edition of Wildlife Art Journal magazine a little differently.  Beginning Monday, February 7, we'll be unveiling a new story every day for the next couple of weeks.  Some will be free to read.  Most will require a subscription, but for just $15, you'll have access to our next prodigious offering of stories and hundreds of images that go along with them. 

And, of course, a subscription grants you digital access anywhere in the world, wherever you, at any hour of the day, without having to track down a single back issue. 

In our archives, you'll enjoy more than 150 stories covering the work of over 1,500 global artists and almost 3,000 images.  It will leave you entertained and serve as a ready reference whether you are an artist, collector or observer who simply likes basking in art of the natural world.  We're also on Facebook and Twitter.  Become our friend.