Hi Kate..
Both wonderful paintings and how lucky you are that your grandchildren love you enough to want them!!

How does one get (or earn?) a birth totem?? Does it have to do with personality or???

Love the colors in the deer painting!! When I was up in Montana last summer I enjoyed seeing the work of an artist named Carol Hagan who also paints animals but all of hers are very very colorful!

Be well and happy holidays!!