Max the Great Horned Owl Hearing Hooting
acrylic painting
on stretched canvas
Finished white edges
Ready to Hang
Varnished and
Signed on Front
2018
One-of-a-kind
x 1.5" d
24" h
x 30" w
70 lbs.
1 oz.
Ships free
About this artwork
Max lives at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and comes out with a handler every afternoon to be admired and photographed. He’s had problems recently with aggressive native great horned owls attacking him, so he’s on the lookout for incoming. Here, he’s staring at a not-so-distant tree from whence the hooting is coming. I painted him with tiny isolated brush strokes on a white ground to illustrate the complexity of his plumage without actually trying to paint individual feathers.
Emil Morhardt
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