Emil Morhardt

Whimbrel #11 Speaking Out, Original Painting

2019

Artist Comments
This whimbrel was trying to tell me something as he was leaving. Whimbrels don't talk a lot, so this image is amusingly unusual. He's painted in browns and grays (and a little red) on a white background with a lot of feather detail. There's also a reflection from the wet sand, and a bluish-gray shadow. Painted on deckled edge paper so can either be floated or matted behind glass.

About the Artist
Emil Morhardt is an acrylic painter from Santa Barbara, California who expresses his passion for birds through realistic acrylic paintings. He paints at home in a studio room that has large windows and a north-facing view of the mountains. He observes the animals from this window, watching roadrunners, foxes, bobcats, deer, and coyote run by. Surrounded by this wildlife, Emil paints bird portraits reminiscent of those by artist John James Audubon. He bases his paintings off hundreds of photographs he takes of birds in the wild and at wildlife recovery centers. Emil captures the freedom and inquisitiveness that birds display in the natural world. Before painting birds, he painted landscapes of San Francisco and the Eastern Sierra. Emil was raised in the high desert of California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College and a PhD in Environmental Physiology and Ecology from Rice University. He also was a Professor of Environmental Biology at Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Pitzer Colleges.

Words that describe this painting: shorebird, bird, animal portrait, whimbrel, animals, realism, representational, watercolor painting, white

Whimbrel #11 Speaking Out
Emil Morhardt
Watercolor painting on paper
Ready to frame
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2019
16 in. h x 20 in. w
0 lbs. 3 oz.