Fish Paintings
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
1880s English School Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Oil
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Conceptual Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Color Pencil, Tempera, Permanent Marker
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Acrylic, Oil, Wood Panel
Mid-20th Century Italian School Still-life Paintings
Oil, Cardboard
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Expressionist Animal Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Oil
19th Century Animal Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
2010s Expressionist Interior Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Interior Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Panel
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Linen, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1960s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Acrylic
20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Emil Morhardt paints a swooping hawk he observed circling the sky and then landing on a tall nearby tree. The bird inspects the many gopher holes nearby. Emil captures it just as it launches a successful attack—painting the plumage with fine detailed brushwork and intense colors against a pure white background. The piece embodies the essence of this powerful raptor.
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...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
1960s American Modern Animal Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Animal Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Cardboard
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil, Photogram
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Paper, India Ink, Pigment
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Mixed Media
1940s Modern Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1930s Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Paper, Ink
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Metal
Artist Comments
Three colorful fihes swim against a bright orange background. Artist John McCabe originally created the piece to accompany the live recording of the band "Goo...
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Animal Paintings
Acrylic
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