American Realist Animal Paintings
Mid-20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1940s American Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic, Wood Panel
1970s American Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
2010s American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Pastel
1990s American Realist Animal Paintings
Enamel
Mid-20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Gouache, Archival Paper
Artist Comments
A close-up view of two ducks looking astutely at the viewer. "There's something highly engaging, and perhaps a little unsettling, about the way these young fe...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
"Common Ravens are a friendly lot, hanging around in large groups at an abundant food source or pairing off to wander as a couple," ...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
"Ravens look highly intelligent," says artist Emil Morhardt. "This one was slowly and purposefully striding back and forth about ...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
2010s American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Panel
20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
2010s American Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Linen
1970s American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
1930s American Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Acrylic, Panel
Artist Comments
Besides having an affinity for ravens, artist Sally Adams shares her admiration for the band, Counting Crows. A combination of b...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
1950s American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
1930s American Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic, Cardboard
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Watercolor, Gouache
Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero displays a stunning koi pond in mesmerizing shades of deep blue and green. Part of his series of paintings exploring ponds, waterlilies,...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
"These raucous birds arrive at my Santa Barbara feeder in flocks," shares artist Emil Morhardt. "They shoo away sparrows and hous...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Artist Heather Foster encountered this inquisitive subject while painting en plein air. "This nosy California girl wanted to be front and center to see what t...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
2010s American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s American Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Board
Artist Comments
In his distinct realism style, artist Guigen Zha displays a black horse drinking water from a tranquil lily pond. Part of ...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Emil Morhardt captures a sanderling scurrying along the edge of incoming surf. "In a second, he'll turn around and follow ...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
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...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
"Togetherness is a wonderful place to be, and what better reflects a bond of love," says artist Jeff Fleming. He displays a touching portrait of a golden retriever mom affectionately posing with her puppy. Jeff begins with a pencil sketch and applies paint with his fingers, brushes, and string. He drizzles paint in random strokes to create an energetic composition brimming with splashes of color.
About the Artist
Artist Jeff Fleming uses fingerpainting to create exuberant portraits of dogs. Growing up in Southern California, Jeff was first introduced to fingerpainting in kindergarten. He painted through high school and college and won several art awards, including Best of Show in a city wide student competition. After graduating with a degree in journalism and advertising, he went to work as an art director. For the next 40 years, he created print, radio and television ads for a number of top agencies. "After retiring in 2019, the clouds of stress and pressure cleared and allowed me to set my creative energy free," says Jeff. He began developing new techniques focused on the excitement and energy of painting. Today, he uses a variety of methods and tools, including fingerpainting wearing nitrile gloves...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
1870s American Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Emil Morhardt photographed this goose from a small boat on the Multnomah Channel in Portland, Oregon. "It was serenely paddling along just a few feet a...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
"Who knew that Snowy Egrets at the beach hunted beetles?" says artist Emil Morhardt. "This one was stealthily sneaking up on some...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
"The Galapágos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis) is the same genus and size as the North American Red-tailed Hawk, but a little darker," explains artist Emil Morhard...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Long-Billed Curlews, some of the largest of the shorebirds, often hang out together, milling around at the edge of the surf, then wading in to feed. I spotted...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
"These two friends were at the Santa Fe rodeo grounds, early in the morning, just after they were fed," shares artist Heather Foster. "They were relaxed toget...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Ink, Pencil
Early 19th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Ink
2010s American Realist Animal Paintings
Paper, Gouache
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Panel
1950s American Realist Animal Paintings
Oil, Board
