Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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 coyotes run by. Surrounded by this wildlife, Morhardt 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. Morhardt 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. Morhardt was raised in the high desert of California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Morhardt has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College and a Ph.D. in Environmental Physiology and Ecology from Rice University. He also was a Professor of Environmental Biology at Claremont McKenna, Scripps and Pitzer Colleges.
Artist Comments
Black turnstones are small hyperactive solitary shorebirds that, on Leadbetter Beach in Santa Barbara where they can be found in abundance in early winter, ra...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Artist Comments
Why is this bird with a clearly white breast so named? Because it's never in breeding plumage in Santa Barbara - I guess you have to go to the high Arctic to ...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
2010s Abstract Expressionist Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Charcoal, Ink, Graphite, Gouache
1930s American Realist Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Charcoal
Early 2000s Abstract Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Gouache
1960s Abstract Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Wax Crayon, Gouache
1970s Abstract Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Gouache
2010s Abstract Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
1980s Abstract Geometric Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
