David Sipko

Tern In Flight, Painting, Oil on Canvas

2017

Seen on the river Thames at Eton UK, where these gulls were very prolific. They allowed me to get quite near before becoming concerned. I have painted assertive Herring Gulls before,...

Boats and birds rise quietly over a vivid hill, captured in fluid, impressionistic strokes. This acrylic painting embodies openness, calm, and the simple poetry of sky and earth. ...

The piece is a Blue Heron out hunting for some food. They can stand like a statue then strike like lightning. The piece is 8 X 8 and is done with oil on a linen panel. It will ari...

Original acrylic painting on canvas Signed on the front and back side and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. Matte or gloss varnish will secure the painting from UV li...

Title French 1970s Seagull in Flight Sunset Seascape Oil Painting on Canvas Key Details Artist: French School, signed and dated verso 1976 Title: Sunset Seagull Medium: Oil painting ...

A stunning example of Ewoud de Groot’s signature fusion of realism and abstraction, Oystercatchers captures a flock of the distinctive black-and-white shorebirds in dynamic mid-fligh...

Artist Comments
Artist Emil Morhardt depicts an Elegant Tern and a Forster’s Tern hanging together in the winter shallows of the Santa Barbara beach in California. Their evening reflections ripple above the water highlighted in gold, silver, and copper leaf. "While the Elegant Terns show up in huge flocks, the much smaller Forester’s tern is uncommon in Santa Barbara, and so a treat to see."

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...

Sea Gulls in Flight French, circa 1970's indistinctly signed verso oil on canvas, unframed Canvas : 18.5 x 21.5 inches Inscribed verso Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition...