Michael Wawrzyniec, a wildlife artist from Virginia, shares his stories of three Bigfoot encounters and how he started painting Bigfoot art.
Michael Wawrzyniec: I started painting when I was about twelve when I got my first art kits. Then I got into making up my own scenes. I leaned towards wildlife art. Most people that know me can recognize my style. It’s a realistic style, and it has kind of an atmospheric, wide-open feeling.
My first Bigfoot enounter was November or December of the year 2000. I saw one from where I see most of my wildlife, which is twenty feet up in a tree stand. You can see all around and it is quiet up there. I’ve been up in a tree and watched the sun come up and go down from one position.
That’s when I saw the Bigfoot. When I first saw this thing, I was probably an hour in dismay. All kinds of things were running through my mind, and I was thinking how I was going to get out of there. I didn't know exactly what to do, such as if I should tell people when I get home. I saw something black and it was moving down the hill after coming up a ridge that goes almost all the way to the river. I leaned out more and it stopped and looked right at me, then the next thing I knew, it took one step and disappeared into the woods. All these years of knowing there is a possibility they could exist, here it was right in front of me and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Then it happened again.
I was on a drive with my family and I was looking down the road through the trees up around the bend, about a hundred yards. I saw this thing that had its hand up near its stomach like it was holding something, and it shot across the road. As I approached the area, I saw the foot go behind a rock. This one was shaggy, but it was really big. You couldn’t see its face.
I saw another one from a tree stand in an area forty miles northwest of where I saw the first one. It could have been the same creature. The eyes did show a little white, but not much. They were black and they were bulged. The brow had a sloping forehead. It was moving up the hill, but it was a little bit farther away, and the woods were a little more wide open. There wasn't as much brush. Once it saw me, it got away.
After about three years, I started talking about it and I made a decision to start painting them. I started doing more portraits and was using my recollection of what the Bigfoot looked like. I started putting it down on paper. To actually bring out that emotion from that creature is what I wanted to capture.
Bigfoot Couple - By Michael Wawrzyniec
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Sources: Strange Dominions podcast
Bigfoot Paintings is the home of Bigfoot, landscape, and wildlife art by artist Michael Jon Wawrzyniec.