owl

owl by kyle parker cunningham

oil on baltic birch panel 12x17.5 inches painted 2012, reworked spring 2021

This painting was from a few years ago. I reworked this painting in April 2021 to how it is here.

I have mixed feelings about working on old paintings. On the one hand I love the old paintings, they have a piece of history of my life in them, they were a time and a place and they represent what I was capable of doing and what I was thinking at that moment. On the other hand I'm an infinitely better painter now than I ever have been. This owl, now, has more of my history representing it's form, owls are magical and deserve to look as good as possible.

Oil painting on baltic birch panel of a stylized owl facing forward with large round dark blue eyes, a golden diamond-shaped beak, dark feathered wings, a pale blue body, and orange talons against a soft pink and light blue background.