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Emil Morhardt Animal 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.

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Artist: Emil Morhardt
Whimbrel #11 Speaking Out, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA

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 gr...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Emil Morhardt Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Whimbrel #11 Speaking Out, Original Painting
Whimbrel #11 Speaking Out, Original Painting

Emil Morhardt
Whimbrel #11 Speaking Out, Original Painting, 2019

$425
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