Over the decades, as a professional artist, depicting Florida’s marine life, Mark Johnson has developed a very good eye for detail. Now the outdoor whose website offers fur “real imagery made up mainly of memory and imagination” is going to start a new job: a crocodile with a row of perfectly white teeth, pulled out his dog.
It will be a self-portrait. Walking in the morning with his golden retrieval racks by the side of the canal near his home in St. Lucy, Johnson was attacked by a ft foot all-in-alligator plundered by the water, ran towards him and ran down his legs, causing deep wounds. 60 stitches.
Johnson said he freed himself by tapping his index finger into the eyes of a giant reptile, which released his grip and sank back into the canal.
“I’ve already received orders to paint the canvas,” Johnson, 61, said in an interview with the community website Patch.com.
“It simply came to our notice then. I can see it right now, I can see my feet, I can see the gator, I can see the position. His eyes were green. The teeth were white with pearls, no stains or anything.
“He knew he was a victim. He wanted to roll so he could start scattering. He started clamping really well over my knee, and my shoe was sticking to the base of his jaw. “
After Johnson freed himself, he said, he was hanged at home with drops of blood from a puncture wound on his leg, to reunite with Rex, who obeyed the command to run when the crocodile attacked.
Johnson’s wife rushed him to the hospital, where doctors stitched his thigh and injured his finger when it caught the animal’s eye.
“It’s important for people to understand how dangerous alligators are.” “If I were a kid or a pet I wouldn’t have had a chance.”
Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission rangers trapped and removed the crocodile. According to state records, there have been 283 large crocodile attacks on humans in Florida since records began in 1948. Twenty-five were fatal.
