Category: Duck

“The Coy Miss Mallards” at UGallery.com

24" x 36" acrylic on canvas, Duck

There’s something highly engaging, and perhaps a little unsettling, about the way these young female Mallards make eye contact with us over their shoulders from behind their wing feathers, notes Emil. He thinks that this painting transmits an enhanced feeling of avian intelligence and alienness quite different from our usual sense of dabbling ducks.

The Coy Miss Mallards. 24″ x 36″ acrylic on canvas. $1,925

Gallery 113, January 2019. Opening Reception, Thursday January 3, 5:30-8:00

Acrylic, Art Galleries, Duck, Falcon, Gallery Shows, Painting, Peregrine Falcon, Prize-Winning Artist, Santa Barbara Bird Refuge, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Shovelers, Northern #3 IMG_0543
Northern Shovelers #3, 20″ x 20″ Acrylic on canvas, SOLD

Falcon, Kisa the Peregrine #1 IMG_0544
Kisa the Peregrine, 15″ x 30″ Acrylic on canvas, SOLD

Blue-Winged Teal at UCSB Lagoon

Blue-winged teal, Duck, Painting, Santa Barbara, UCSB Lagoon, Uncategorized, watercolor

Blue-Winged Teal #1, UCSB Lagoon. 15" x 23" watercolor on Arches 300lb hot-pressed paper.
Blue-Winged Teal #1, UCSB Lagoon. 15″ x 23″ watercolor on Arches 300lb hot-pressed paper.

This time of year the lagoon in the middle of the UC Santa Barbara campus is full of waterfowl of many species. If you jog past, these Blue-Winged Teal ignore you and keep on dabbling like the one in the background, but if you stop and aim a camera at them they quickly drift away.