Category: Santa Barbara

Addition to March Gallery 113 Show

24" x 36" acrylic on canvas, Acrylic, Art Galleries, Gallery Shows, Osprey, Painting, Prize-Winning Artist, Santa Barbara
Osprey in Flight, 24″ x 36″ Acrylic on Canvas, $1,575
Gallery 113, partial March 2022 Morhardt exhibit.

Gallery 113, March 2019; Reception March 7, 5:30-8:00

Acrylic, Art Galleries, Barn Owl, Beach, Long-Billed Curlew, Owl, Barn, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Athena the Barn Oswl #2 IMG_0657
Athena, the Barn Owl #2. 24″ x 30″ acrylic on canvas. $695

This barn owl (named by the Audubon Society Eyes in the Sky project) is housed in their facility at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and comes out in public every afternoon. I painted her with an eponymous barn and an imaginary friend using primarily transparent acrylics, finishing the painting with several coats of matte acrylic varnish, which give the it an ethereal quality.

3 Long-Billed Curlews
3 Long-Billed Curlews. 26″ x 36″ acrylic on panel. $1,100

These three curlews were striding together along Hendry’s Beach in Santa Barbara when I photographed them in this great pose. I painted them with a white background with just a hint of reflection to emphasize the birds themselves.

 

 

Now at Gallery Los Olivos in the Santa Ynez Valley

Acrylic, Art Galleries, Gallery Los Olivos, Mixed media, Owl, Great Horned, Painting, Prize-Winning Artist, Sanderling, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Gallery Shot IMG_2702
Los Olivos Gallery March 2019

Sanderlings #11 PNT_0245
Sanderlings #11, 16″ x 20″ acrylic on panel $500

Max, the Great Horned Owl IMG_0524
Max the Great Horned Owl. 22″ x 30″ mixed media on panel $1000

Sanderling #13 IMG_0247
Sanderling #13, “The Absquatulator”. 16″ x 20″ acrylic on panel $500

New on UGallery.com for Valentines Day

Acrylic, Art Galleries, Painting, Santa Barbara, shorebirds, Willet

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Sleepy Willet 30″ x 30″ acrylic on canvas, $1,600

Willets are usually at the edge of the surf, poking into the wet sand as they follow each wave in and out. This one, when I came on him, was standing above the splash line on one leg asleep. Eventually he noticed me getting closer and closer with my camera and opened his eyes, but still acted sleepy. I painted him with the golden late afternoon sun on his chest and head, and with lavender and gray where his feathers were in shadow.